Turn those deep feelings and obsessions of your heart into captivating pieces of literature.
Cliches are the viruses that infect your writing with diseases.
Some writers write to forget. Some forget to write.
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.
The secret to good writing is to use small words for big ideas, not to use big words for small ideas.
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.
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.
Coffee, my delight of the morning; yoga, my delight of the noon. Then before nightfall, I run along the pleasant paths of the Jardin du Luxembourg. For when air cycles through the lungs, and the body...
Some artists benefit less from being interviewed than they do from being left alone.
A writer gets to live yet another life every time she creates a new story.
Tell a story in lesser and simpler words.
If certain aspect needs to be inconsistent, it must better be consistently inconsistent throughout the story.
The show must go on, and so must The Book.
[G]ive nothing centrality, because writing is about continually shifting weight from one thing and moment to the other.
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.
There are two moments worthwhile in writing, the one when you start and the other when you throw it in the waste-paper basket.
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