What do you want? What are you willing to give up to get it? Writing requires you make sacrifices. Be prepared to work hard to be a writer.
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?
Part of being a writer is defending your vision and not caving in to outside pressures.
Writer's block isn't always a problem. It can be a process of writing that helps us write better.
... And the only way to find that honesty is to not overthink it.For your writing to come alive--to be multi-dimensional--you must barter away some control.
Each part of a story, each word if possible, was to work frontally as well as laterally... (Conveyance: The Story I would Not Want Bill Wilson To Read)
Telling a story is like playing a fiddle. No one want's to hear it when it's done badly
However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts.
Any thing is interesting if you can communicate it. There are no unimportant subjects for the enlivened mind.
Writers get ideas all day every day. The FedEx guy delivers a package from Sears and the writer is thinking how it could actually be a ticking time bomb.
Bringing you closer to the fragile edge of living is the job of a writer.
Good fiction makes the truth believable.
When you write, you want to get rid of the world, do you not? Of course you do. When you're writing, you're creating your own worlds.
Visual and performing artists produce art that lives in the present world. The art of the writer exists in another dimension. Through strings of words and phrases writers inspire their readers to imag...
You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three
Pursue knowledge as though it is your life-blood, then you will know greatness!
Depend upon it, after all, Thomas, Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man. For my own part, there is no seducing me from the path.
You are not an "author," you are a writer. If your books are still selling like hotcakes ten years after your demise, THEN you're an author.
An idea for a story can be anything. The sky is not the limit, the limit is beyond it.