To write, live.
Being a writer all boils down to this: It's you, in a chair, staring at a page. And you're either going to stay in that chair until words are written, or you're going to give up and walk away. The gre...
Authorpreneurship is the businesses side of writing
Writing is easy. Writing well is hard work.
There is no ceremony, no initiation ritual, no secret hand-shake. All you need to be a writer is to write.
The size of your audience is more important than the size of your book
Write without pay until somebody offers to pay.
Only after a writer lets literature shape her can she perhaps shape literature. In working-class France, when an apprentice got hurt, or when he got tired, the experienced workers said, It is the trad...
If you have a machine with three or four parts, you can shake them up in a box and it's still pretty clear what's there. If you have a machine with 10,000 parts and you shake them up in a box, what yo...
The pen is mightier than the sword as long as it doesn't run out of ink.
A character is defined by the kinds of challenges he cannot walk away from.
6 criteria to upgrade literary production; Correct language, the power of the idea, the fluency in expressing, the connection between ideas and the depth of their meanings, the characters movements to...
I never presume to give advice on writing. I think the best way to learn to write is to read booksand stories by bood writers. It's a hard thing to preach about. As Thelonious Monk once said abouthis...
You take a universal concept, something that has been done a million times (because everything has been done a million times), and add a fresh twist to it. Something no one saw coming. But mostly fres...
Originality is not writing the story that has never been told, but writing the stories only you can tell.
In general, shorter is better. If you can encapsulate your idea into a single captivating sentence, you're halfway home.
For me and most of the other writers I know, writing is not rapturous. In fact, the only way I can get anything written at all is to write really, really shitty first drafts.
Sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know, or an imagined person-and write to that one.
Writing is a solitary endeavor, being an author is not.
Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination.
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