Bravery isn't brandishing a sword. It's standing your moral ground and letting others try their best to take you down.
To my fellow writers' I say, 'Write. Build an imaginary world like nobody's watching.
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.
Never Let The Roosters Wake You!
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...
Any man can grow a moustache and a beard! And this does not make him a man! What it takes to be a man is to help a needy person, stand up for the innocent, and lead one's life in the most courteous, d...
Don't ever rely on one job, business contact, etc for your main source of income. Receive multiple sources of income for success.
Every article and review and book that I have ever published has constituted an appeal to the person or persons to whom I should have talked before I dared to write it. I never launch any little essay...
Only the writers can change or fix the past by going back to edit old works
What is your advice to young writers? Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes.
A hammer made of deadlines is the surest tool for crushing writer's block.
Write it as easy as you think about the difficulty
It's better to be remembered for what you said, not what you earned.
Imagination is the parallel universe of a writer. If he is not responding to you in this world, he is probably responding to someone in the imaginary world.
The life of a writer is directed by a mad impulsive muse, that can tell them to cancel all their storyline: a creative divergent devil.
Beauty is light set free.
By seeing how small the world is, I realize how capable I am. I can conquer anything. Anywhere. Anyone.
That was enough dialogue for a few pages - he had to get into some fast, red-hot action.There weren't any more hitches now. The story flowed like a torrent. The margin bell chimed almost staccato, the...
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...
The best writing speaks when the heart whispers.
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