Writers don't suffer from insanity, they depend upon it!
Writing is easy. Writing well is hard work.
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.
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.
Lie naked on the table, and let them cut. Criticism is surgery, and humility is the anesthetic that allows you to tolerate it. In the end, the process will make you a stronger, more flexible, and trul...
I should be writing ...
I personally believe that one learns to write by writing.
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...
Murphy is a writer's best friend, but you have to keep an eye on him, or he'll steal the silver.
Don't give in to doubt. Never be discouraged if your first draft isn't what you thought it would be. Given skill and a story that compels you, muster your determination and make what's on the page clo...
You can't have good ideas unless you have lots of ideas.
There are a lot of ways for a novelist to create suspense, but also really only two: one a trick, one an art.
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....
I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.
A writer creates from his mind; his creations emanate from the feelings enmeshed deep within his heart. From the fire burning within his soul, he gives shape to his thoughts. His thoughts start to bre...
As a naturally shy person, I loved the anonymity of writing before my career took off. I loved how my stories didn't care about my weight. When I started publishing that writing, I loved that, to my r...
We slip into a dream, forgetting the room we're sitting in, forgetting it's lunchtime or time to go to work. We recreate, with minor and for the most part unimportant changes, the vivid and continuous...
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.
Sometimes you have to tell a a bunch of lies to get at the truth.
There are many rules of good writing, but the best way to find them is to be a good reader.