I've been rejected a hundred times. It just takes that one person who totally believes in you!
What is writing but an expression of my own life?
Maugham then offers the greatest advice anyone could give to a young author: "At the end of an interrogation sentence, place a question mark. You'd be surprised how effective it can be.
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...
Read. Write. Read some more. Explore the universe through your writing. Practice and learn what moves you and what doesn't.
The size of your audience is more important than the size of your book
Plot comes from the mind but the characters come from the heart!
WHILE writing, just try to have fun with your ms. Enjoy the process, but push on. Always push toward the finish line!
Never underestimate the power of the written word, especially when you put them down in your own voice.
Description is the color in the canvas of your story.
The best kind of praise is intelligent praise.
I practiced writing in every possible way that I could. I wrote a pastiche of other people. Just as a pianist runs his scales for ten years before he gives his concert: because when he gives that conc...
When it comes to overcoming writing hurdles, getting sick is like suffering a review from a critic with an axe to grind; you can't let it get you down!
Fresh writing and an original twist on an old idea. As much as this term is hated in the industry, it doesn't make it any less true. High concept. Simply put, you take a universal concept, something t...
The greater the artist, the greater the doubt.
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...
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...
One of the hardest things for a writer to do is delete words.
I write to shed my sacred sorrows.
Good writing just isn't that common.