For the vision of a novelist is both complex and specialised; complex, because behind his characters and apart from them must stand something stable to which he relates them; specialised because since...
On the whole, I think you should write biographies of those you admire and respect, and novels about human beings who you think are sadly mistaken.
If you are serious, and you want to make a living as an author, then you need to hustle. Period. If you can't make that quality, then you need to concentrate on your craft and practice more. One other...
When you start out writing, your inner creative is just a little seedling with tiny leaves above the earth, peeping out into the air for the first time.
Dig deep and go where the pain and fear and joy are, and put it out there. The minute you shy away from pure honesty in your writing, you become a liar.
All great movies have one thing in common: every frame of every scene could stand alone as a work of art. Why should it be different in a book?
I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.
Be still my hand and let the words write themselves upon my heart. Be still my heart and let your pages be filled in silence.
There will be pages. Lots and lots of pages. Most of the pages will have letters on them, and a vast majority of these letters will be in the Roman alphabet.
Every word I write is like a drop of my blood. If it's flowed passionately and long, I need time to recover from the emotion spent before I begin a new story. My characters are aspects of my life. I h...
If you think there is no time to write now, there would never be.
There are many rules of good writing, but the best way to find them is to be a good reader.
Don't tell me the moon is shining, show me the glint of light on broken glass.
The pen is mightier than the sword as long as it doesn't run out of ink.
Inspiration surrounds us, the creation is our responsibility as artists.-Lyn Crain
From school desks with inkwells and scratchy nibs on paper to sweaty finger prints on a tablet... technology progression yes... style?
Writing is like surfing on a wild sea, in the middle of a moonless night, in a hailstorm, on a deserted island.Yeah... that about sums it up.
The hard part is putting one word after another.
But if you don't understand that story is character and not just idea, you will not be able to breathe life into even the most intriguing flash of inspiration.
How many great gems were lost to thoughtand not put down to pen.You can but think of just a fewand then they're lost again.
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