Writers, that deep dark secret is not something you should hide from the world. It is your gift. Take it from memory and illuminate it in literature,shake the dust from it, unless it will get you arre...
To write, live.
If you have nothing good to say about someone, write a book about them. - Carmen Fox, Life Motto
Talent is cheap. What matters is discipline.
Let grammar, punctuation, and spelling into your life! Even the most energetic and wonderful mess has to be turned into sentences.
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....
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...
On Hayao MiyazakiI told Miyazaki I love the gratuitous motion in his films; instead of every movement being dictated by the story, sometimes people will just sit for a moment, or they will sigh, or lo...
...and above all, you should not think of writing as a way of earning your living. If you do, your work will smell of your poverty. It will be colored by your weakness and be as thin as your hunger. T...
writing - like any art - is so damned personal that there really isn't a right way to do it. You do what works for you; what matters is getting the words on the paper. Sure, if you hear advice, and it...
There's no such thing as the middle of nowhere. Something is happening everywhere. You just have to find the story in it.
When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.
I have no talent; it's just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.
You can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.
I'm going to write a novel and get it published. I'm going to do it because writing a novel is worthwhile and because I have the talent to do it.I'm going to do it because I have something important t...
The beautiful unruliness of literature is what makes it so much fun to wander through: you read Jane Austen and you say, oh, that is IT. And then you turn around and read Sterne, and you say, Man, tha...
Make it so good and so clear that it doesn't need any further explanation.
Writer's block, for me, is merely a way of saying "I'm too lazy to sit down and give it the proper time." I want to be a progressive writer, not a lazy one.
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.
As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.