Writing is an adventure. There is no way to know where it will take you, and what you will find. You could find success. You could find fans. Or, best of all, you could find yourself.
Honesty makes stories real and characters memorable. From there, taking them to where they need to go will be all the development they need.
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.
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.
Good writing just isn't that common.
Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination.
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...
A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.
Make today the day you begin that awesome idea you have had for years. Now go, write this book, and remember that today is an important day in history.
Writings are thoughts in a defined moment.
Write to evolve and you'll evolve to write.
Authors, such as William Zinsser, Steven Pinker, Natalie Goldberg, and Stephen King, who have all written exquisite books on the art and craft of writing, have reminded me that it is the commitment to...
I have a great many opinions about writing, but I'm afraid that all of them are unprintable
Every writer in the history of the world has been afraid to put words on the page. But we only remember those who overcame that fear.
All great stories began as shitty first drafts.There are no exceptions to this.
it's been my experience that most writers don't talk about their craft--they just do it
Don't look back until you've written an entire draft, just begin each day from the last sentence you wrote the preceding day. This prevents those cringing feelings, and means that you have a substanti...
The beauty of Goodreads is that you know you’re sowing in a field where everyone, by definition and self-selection, loves to read.
It is only when you open your veins and bleed onto the page a little that you establish contact with your reader. If you do not believe in the characters or the story you are doing at that moment with...