She thought a writer should work harder writing a book than she did reading it.
Writing a book is a blood sport. If it doesn't hurt when you're done, you're probably doing something wrong.
Description is the color in the canvas of your story.
Every writer in the history of the world has been afraid to put words on the page. But we only remember those who overcame that fear.
Do not forget to write your sacred book.
Open your soul and put it out there and dare the world to read it, ready to have them stomp on you and laugh, but ready to do it again the next day.
Write to evolve and you'll evolve to write.
Until you begin to write, then you shall know the wonders of the written word.
Writing as a creative art flourishes only when there are no rules. Rules stifle you from entering the silent and forbidden spaces where the core of the story is waiting to be revealed.
A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.
Let grammar, punctuation, and spelling into your life! Even the most energetic and wonderful mess has to be turned into sentences.
No good story is quite true.
. . . But then you will want to put that {publication} behind you right away. You will want to recover the obscurity you swim best through. You've got eternal youth there. You'll never be satisfied. I...
People say that writers write for money. From my own experience that's not true. I write for me. I publish for money.
In general, shorter is better. If you can encapsulate your idea into a single captivating sentence, you're halfway home.
Publish. Be damned. Repeat.
Storytelling is in our DNA. It's what differentiates humans from other species: we don't just communicate information. We tell stories.
There's no rule for better writing. It's best to make your own rules, and see what works best for you.
Writers need to be open to trying new things. My first bestseller was a cookbook, and from that experience I learned things about marketing a book that benefitted me greatly.
A love of writing is far greater than any word count.
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