To master magical realism, one must make the real seem unreal but, more importantly, make the unreal seem real.
Even great, best selling writers produce works that fall flat from expectations. This writing thing isn't easy and everything you produce won't be a best seller, but you must write anyway. You have to...
True authors don't write for fame or to make a name or money, they write to make impact
I believe you can consider yourself a successful prose writer when the number of words you put on a page each day is equal to, or greater than, the number of milligrams of mind-altering chemicals you...
Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut. The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Te...
Mostly writing requires massive dedication, a whole lot of time spent alone, way too much sitting, countless hours spent thinking hard, and unending and occasionally painful dedication to forming idea...
If a writer writes something that he or she has never experienced, I think the reader can sense right away that it is garbage. The only thing that can replace experience, though, is imagination; howev...
Only something extremely dire and disabling will ever stop a real writer from writing. Retirement is never an option.
Upon the one thing every writer absolutely must have, and that is intellectual curiosity.
There is a difference between fresh and weird. You never want to throw your reader out of the story. Keep it fresh but natural.
Up in that room I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about. I was trying to do this all the time I was writing, and it was good and severe discipline.
Fiction is a careful combination of observation, inspiration, and imagination.
Don't let writers block push you around. Figure out what the problem is,whether it's with the ms or it's in your personal life, and face it head on. Don't stop writing. Just try really hard to work th...
As a writer, the main skill you need is curiosity. As a reader, the main tool you need is open-mindedness.
I personally believe that one learns to write by writing.
Plot comes from the mind but the characters come from the heart!
One expert may be as good as another until one writes a book
The art of writing involves making as many cups of tea as you can in the time available for writing. Then adding extra time for writing...
Never underestimate the power of the written word, especially when you put them down in your own voice.
TODAY IS A GREAT DAY TO MAKE ART.
Showing 81 to 100 of 347 results