Writers don't suffer from insanity, they depend upon it!
You have to be in your middle thirties before you have anything worth saying.
Make today the day you begin that awesome idea you have had for years. Now go, write this book, and remember that today is an important day in history.
A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.
Heinlein's Rules for Writers Rule One: You Must WriteRule Two: Finish What Your StartRule Three: You Must Refrain From Rewriting, Except to Editorial OrderRule Four: You Must Put Your Story on the Mar...
Let grammar, punctuation, and spelling into your life! Even the most energetic and wonderful mess has to be turned into sentences.
It's okay to write crap. Just don't try publishing it while it's still crap.
People say to write about what you know. I'm here to tell you, no one wants to read that, cos you don't know anything. So write about something you don't know. And don't be scared, ever.
When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.
Prose is architecture, not interior decoration.
From my writer's workshop, "Know when it's time to put everything you've got on the page. Then, rip open a vein and do it!
No good story is quite true.
Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine.
It's hard for me to believe that people who read very little - or not at all in some cases - should presume to write and expect people to like what they have written. Can I be blunt on this subject? I...
Remember: when people tell you something's wrong or doesn't work, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what's wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong.
Try any goddam thing you like, no matter how boringly normal or outrageous. If it works, fine. If it doesn't, toss it. Toss it even if you love it.
. . . 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...
Don't be 'a writer.' Be writing.
I'm not asking you to describe the rain falling the night the archangel arrived; I'm demanding that you get me wet. Make up your mind, Mr. Writer, and for once in your life be the flowers that smells...
One expert may be as good as another until one writes a book
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