Cliches are the viruses that infect your writing with diseases.
Turn those deep feelings and obsessions of your heart into captivating pieces of literature.
I'm not a writer. Ernest Hemingway was a writer. I just have a vivid imagination and type 90 WPM.
Create a world in front of your readers where they can taste, smell, touch, hear, see, and move. Else they are likely going to move on to another book.
Be a good reader first, if you wish to become a good writer.
As you become a better writer, the writing becomes more difficult. You toil harder to tell a story in a lesser number of words.
A writer can do without food for a few hours, but not without the sight of books.
Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words.
Ideas either age like fine wine or rot like potatoes over time.
The secret to good writing is to use small words for big ideas, not to use big words for small ideas.
A writer gets to live yet another life every time she creates a new story.
Dreams are good at playing with your memory. They love leaving no trace behind and hate to show up once again in the morning.
And as your writing evolves, what you need and get from it evolves.
Tell a story in lesser and simpler words.
I think there are two types of writers, the architects and the gardeners. The architects plan everything ahead of time, like an architect building a house. They know how many rooms are going to be in...
As you write your novel, you gradually start thinking like some of your characters in it. And at times the writer may lose himself completely in some character.
The best writers I've read possess oodles of self-doubt, yet claw their way up with each work and remain humble. Boastful ones, not so much.
Coffee, my delight of the morning; yoga, my delight of the noon. Then before nightfall, I run along the pleasant paths of the Jardin du Luxembourg. For when air cycles through the lungs, and the body...
Storytellers don't show, they tell. I'm sticking with that.
That's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again.
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