I'm not a writer. Ernest Hemingway was a writer. I just have a vivid imagination and type 90 WPM.
And as your writing evolves, what you need and get from it evolves.
I hope I don't write TOO many books! When I look at authors who have written too many books, I wonder to myself "When did they live?" I certainly want to write BECAUSE I live! I know I don't want to w...
When entering a library, I never forget to bow down!
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...
The worst part of writing is meeting all these great new characters and having no one to talk about (the adventures you share with) them.
Sometimes when I prepare to write, I feel the same sensation wash over me as if my toes were curling over the brink of a high cliff, my gaze peering downward into a dark pond, and I anxiously wonder,...
You cannot write your character until you know how he or she thinks, until you know what their philosophy is in the world that they occupy.
I still suspect that most people start out with some kind of ability to tell a story but that it gets lost along the way. Of course, the ability to create life with words is essentially a gift. If you...
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.
When a person sets out to learn from others and not to teach others he becomes a true writer.
A day of bad writing is always better than a day of no writing.
Developing your voice takes... time and practice.
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...
At one time I thought the most important thing was talent. I think now that — the young man or the young woman must possess or teach himself, train himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and t...
Life is a book. There are many pages to be written.
I grasp words for the sake of clutching My mind considers them heart touchingRight then I write for my reader's pleasureNot knowing what distance a soul can measure
You need the devotion to your work that a priest of God has for his.
My pen beats faster as I write with my heart
A hammer made of deadlines is the surest tool for crushing writer's block.
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