You will do well not to write for money, not because you won't get rich doing it, but because writing fueled by that sort of motivation becomes dull and lifeless and mediocre.
Storytelling is in our DNA. It's what differentiates humans from other species: we don't just communicate information. We tell stories.
I recommend writing standing up from time to time. It's easier to dance when you finish writing.
If a novel was a map of a country, a story was the bright silver pin that marked the crossroads.
Nothing is wasted when you are a writer. The stuff that doesn't work has to be written to make way for the stuff that might; often you need to take the long way around. And if you're writing memoir yo...
So they spread the paintings on the lawn, and the boy explained each of them. This is the school, and this is the playground, and these are my friends. He stared at the paintings for a long time and t...
If something inside of you is real, we will probably find it interesting, and it will probably be universal. So you must risk placing real emotion at the center of your work. Write straight into the e...
Rejection is the run in the pantyhose of life.
It's not pain. It's raw material.
How to write a book? Start writing,continue writing and finish writing.
Let your emotions guide your hand to the paper and watch how your sorrows can turn into beauty. For tears relieve your body but writing relieves your heart.
think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to f...
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, what you feel about. Feel, what you have written about.
Make them laugh, make them cry, make them wait.
Write what you know, and what do you know better than your own secrets?
You gotta dig through the shit to get to the gold.
If you aren't willing to put your best work out there, write for yourself. Don't ever publish.
Any advice for how to be a successful author?""Yes. Don't be a woman. And be dead. And do both at the same time, if you can.
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.