Turn those deep feelings and obsessions of your heart into captivating pieces of literature.
Cliches are the viruses that infect your writing with diseases.
Oh, how scary and wonderful it is that words can change our lives simply by being next to each other.
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.
A writer can do without food for a few hours, but not without the sight of books.
Be a good reader first, if you wish to become a good writer.
As you become a better writer, the writing becomes more difficult. You toil harder to tell a story in a lesser number of words.
Ideas either age like fine wine or rot like potatoes over time.
Dreams are good at playing with your memory. They love leaving no trace behind and hate to show up once again in the morning.
I write one page of masterpiece to ninety-one pages of shit. I try to put the shit in the wastebasket.
Tell a story in lesser and simpler words.
A writer gets to live yet another life every time she creates a new story.
Almost every single thing you hope publication will do for you is a fantasy, a hologram--it's the eagle on your credit card that only seems to soar.
I learn my world through writing.
If certain aspect needs to be inconsistent, it must better be consistently inconsistent throughout the story.
As you write your novel, you gradually start thinking like some of your characters in it. And at times the writer may lose himself completely in some character.
Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it.
I think the best thing about being a writer is getting to dream. It's constantly viewing life through the "what if?" lens.
If you think there is no time to write now, there would never be.
I know, not everyone will like what I write, but writing is not about trying to please everybody.
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