Good writing is always about things that are important to you, things that are scary to you, things that eat you up.
I'm writing. The pages are starting to stack up. My morale is improving the more I feel like a writer.
Good writing just isn't that common.
Treat backstory like a pungent spice. I say this to encourage you to picture a jalapeno pepper that can set your mouth on fire, every time you even think about adding backstory into your book. What yo...
Writing is a lifelong disease. Once contracted, the only prescription is to write constantly in whatever form to express your condition, in whatever construction to carry your words beyond you.
Today is the day that you create worlds, you change lives, you make a something, a someone, out of nothing.Today is the day you become a writer.
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.
An author is like an incompetent bricklayer - doesn't use mortar and keeps rearranging the bricks until someone tells him to stop.
Writing is easy. Writing well is hard work.
I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.
Poems are small moments of enlightenment
My imagination, unbidden, possessed and guided me, gifting the successive images that arose in my mind with a vivdness far beyond the usual bounds of reverie....
A really well-done first draft of a book bares your soul. The purpose of revision is so that everyone who reads the published version believes you were writing about theirs.
A writer's problem does not change. He himself changes and the world he lives in changes but his problem remains the same. It is always how to write truly and, having found what is true, to project it...
Don't over edit. Don't second-guess yourself, or your ideas. Just write. Write every day, and keep at it. Don't get discouraged with the rejections. Tape them up on your office wall, to remind you of...
Be true to the writer within you; tell the story you're dying to tell in exactly the way you wish to tell it, and don't trust anyone who tries to sway you otherwise.
Write, what you feel about. Feel, what you have written about.
The moment I realize I just stayed up until five in the morning writing is that moment I know I am meant to be a writer.
I am often told that the model of balance for the novelist should be Dante, who divided his territory up pretty evenly between hell, purgatory, and paradise. There can be no objection to this, but als...
I recommend writing standing up from time to time. It's easier to dance when you finish writing.
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