Talent is cheap. What matters is discipline.
Don't say it was "delightful"; make us say "delightful" when we've read the description.
Storytellers think they're writing for the audience. They're writing, in a way, to hurt the audience.
Its weird how i dream things that are worth writing.Its like God is writing them into my mind while i am sleeping and the moment i woke up i know i have to write what i dreamt
You can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.
I honestly think in order to be a writer, you have to learn to be reverent. If not, why are you writing? Why are you here? Let's think of reverence as awe, as presence in and openness to the world. Th...
When you're writing, don't forget to keep your favorite audience in mind--you.
The only 'ironclad rules' in writing fiction are the laws of physics and the principles of grammar, and even those can be bent.
[Speaking about writing her first novel] You have to be passionate enough about it and I was.
She thought a writer should work harder writing a book than she did reading it.
When it comes to writing, clarity trumps all rules.
Why is it that women are the only ones who will write perfect men into fiction? It's strange. If a man portrayed his fictional men as archangels, the feminists would throw back their heads and howl, "...
A character is defined by the kinds of challenges he cannot walk away from.
The fiction writer has to engage in a continual examination of conscience. He has to be aware of the freak in himself.
A writer seizes every opportunity to wonder.
Believe in yourself and start achieving your dream. It waits for you on the other side of the publish button.
Writing is like knitting. Stitch after stitch, word by word, and before you know it you have a book ... or a jumper!
Don't have every dialog go in a straight line to solve the problem. Let your characters argue, be sarcastic, disagree or joke around.
It's basically an act of faith, hoping that a small idea will unspool into a bigger whole. Sometimes, in fact often, it doesn't and it just runs out of steam. The hope for me is that it will snowball....
To be a writer - write! To be an author - publish! To be a bestselling author - never stop writing!