I am doubtful myself about the undertaking. Part of the attraction of the L.R. is, I think, due to the glimpses of a large history in the background: an attraction like that of viewing far off an unvi...
If a writer writes something that he or she has never experienced, I think the reader can sense right away that it is garbage. The only thing that can replace experience, though, is imagination; howev...
I believe you can consider yourself a successful prose writer when the number of words you put on a page each day is equal to, or greater than, the number of milligrams of mind-altering chemicals you...
Dreams are there for those who dare to dream them.
I have no talent; it's just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.
The biggest laughs are based on the biggest disappointments and the biggest fears.
Write what you love. Passion is the key to a good story.
As a writer, the main skill you need is curiosity. As a reader, the main tool you need is open-mindedness.
Up in that room I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about. I was trying to do this all the time I was writing, and it was good and severe discipline.
Someone asked me, 'How do you write a book?' I said, 'I live with a pen in one hand.
Write to evolve and you'll evolve to write.
Live first, write second.
If you can't stand your own company alone in a room for long hours, or, when it gets tough, the feeling of being in a locked cell, or, when it gets tougher still, the vague feeling of being buried ali...
I've tried to explain to people that I don't 'love' writing any more than I 'love' breathing. It's something I do and it's something I need. If I thought about it as a love/hate thing, I probably woul...
Maugham then offers the greatest advice anyone could give to a young author: "At the end of an interrogation sentence, place a question mark. You'd be surprised how effective it can be.
Until you begin to write, then you shall know the wonders of the written word.
The difference between wanting to write and having written is one year of hard, relentless labour. It's a bridge you have to build all by yourself, all alone, all through the night, while the world go...
The only 'ironclad rules' in writing fiction are the laws of physics and the principles of grammar, and even those can be bent.
The skill of writing needs much patience, practicing, and time. There is no good writing from a quick effort, or a confused writer.
It's a terrible mistake to let the perfect get in the way of the good. If you wait to publish until you have written a great book, you will never publish anything. Great books happen by chance, not by...
Showing 181 to 200 of 347 results