They say a picture is worth 1,000 words. I say its closer to 675 or 700.
Be passionate about what you write, believe in your ability to convey timeless ideas, and let no one tell you what what you're capable of.
I'm trying to give my character voice but he won't speak.
No book can ever be finished. While working on it we learn just enough to find it immature the moment we turn away from it
Ugh, writer's block. The best thing to do is to forget about everything you're trying to do. Get away from your writing station, kick your feet up and relax. Then allow your mind to just wander. Don't...
This conversation with myself has an overwhelming aroma of narcissism.
When I write I like to give equal justice to lyrics, too. I want the song to have meaning for me so I can make it have meaning for the audience.
Writing is a profession that has no real career structure and your best advice when you hit a difficulty is probably going to come from another writer one or two rungs on the career ladder ahead of yo...
Vulnerability is the portal to feeling. Feeling is the portal to strength.
To increase the chances of a writer trying to kill themselves, cut off their hands.
As I am a work in progress, you shall see me more or less? Don't shake me out if I digress. As of me less, from me more of my work, I guess.
In retrospect we can only be thankful to all the mistakes that we made and to all the lessons that we learned from them!
Are we not all books waiting for someone to pick us up and read the pages that people missed?
When dealing with writers it breaks down like this: a regular writer is your average everyday megalomaniac. Like every artist, there's a part of them that believes--nay, knows--the world turns for the...
That was enough dialogue for a few pages - he had to get into some fast, red-hot action.
The self-addressed stamped envelope. The representation of everything that was wrong with the old publishing industry.
Hammett used to be irritated by that and would answer that nobody ever deliberately wrote a potboiler, you just did the best you could and woke up to find it good or no good.
Everyone has scars. Cowards conceal them. The brave reveal them.
Don't loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club, and if you don't get it you will nonetheless get something that looks remarkably like it.
My only wish is to be buried with my books.
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