Some writers write to forget. Some forget to write.
Cliches are the viruses that infect your writing with diseases.
Turn those deep feelings and obsessions of your heart into captivating pieces of literature.
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.
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.
A writer can do without food for a few hours, but not without the sight of books.
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.
My advice to writers is this:Walk, talk, breathe, laugh, cry, fall, rise, fail, succeed, run, jump, love, hate, hide, seek, learn, work, play, feel, LIVE.Then write it down.
Tell a story in lesser and simpler words.
A writer gets to live yet another life every time she creates a new story.
Dreams are good at playing with your memory. They love leaving no trace behind and hate to show up once again in the morning.
[G]ive nothing centrality, because writing is about continually shifting weight from one thing and moment to the other.
Some artists benefit less from being interviewed than they do from being left alone.
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.
Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like all-embracing compassion.
When a person sets out to learn from others and not to teach others he becomes a true writer.
The show must go on, and so must The Book.
The best writers I've read possess oodles of self-doubt, yet claw their way up with each work and remain humble. Boastful ones, not so much.
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