Keep being bold on the page, and in life, and people cannot ignore you forever.
There is no ceremony, no initiation ritual, no secret hand-shake. All you need to be a writer is to write.
I cannot tell you how important fresh, crisp writing is for an aspiring writer. Plot is great. The overall concept is super important. But the writing is what sells your work. It all boils down to the...
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.
True authors don't write for fame or to make a name or money, they write to make impact
I'm writing. The pages are starting to stack up. My morale is improving the more I feel like a writer.
Writing is about allowing yourself to become a vessel of creativity. Writers are avatars of creation. We have tender hearts, and strong emotions. It's hard not to when you have a million different peo...
Writing is a solitary endeavor, being an author is not.
Every word born of an inner necessity - writing must never be anything else.
Sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know, or an imagined person-and write to that one.
Nouns and verbs are the guts of the language. Beware of covering up with adjectives and adverbs.
Writers don't suffer from insanity, they depend upon it!
Yesterday is gone, and tomorrow is beyond our reach. The best time to write is now, in the present.
Writing is the act of discovery.
Writing is easy. Writing well is hard work.
The best kind of praise is intelligent praise.
When you have something meaningful to say, you lose your desire for much grammar; for only in the incompetence of words does one seek the redeeming power of vocabulary.
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.
Let your story grow. Let it surprise you, and it will certainly surprise your readers.