Good fiction makes the truth believable.
Cliches are the viruses that infect your writing with diseases.
Turn those deep feelings and obsessions of your heart into captivating pieces of literature.
I'm not a writer. Ernest Hemingway was a writer. I just have a vivid imagination and type 90 WPM.
Create a world in front of your readers where they can taste, smell, touch, hear, see, and move. Else they are likely going to move on to another book.
As you become a better writer, the writing becomes more difficult. You toil harder to tell a story in a lesser number of words.
Be a good reader first, if you wish to become a good writer.
A writer can do without food for a few hours, but not without the sight of books.
Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words.
The secret to good writing is to use small words for big ideas, not to use big words for small ideas.
Ideas either age like fine wine or rot like potatoes over time.