If you have a story to tell, put it out there. Get the thing done. No excuses. No procrastinating. No apologies. It will never be as good as you want it to be, so forget about perfection. Just be sati...
There is nothing more valuable in the writing process than a friend to hold you accountable to your own potential.
It's not the writing part that's hard. What's hard is sitting down to write.What keeps us from sitting down is Resistance.
Books most certainly don't write themselves, but life does. When in doubt about what to write, use your own life.
On the worst day of writing, the work is instructive. On the best day, the act is transcendent.
There are students that are scattered, who need to see something through to the finish, but I would say there are possibly more who do not entertain the leaps of the mind that need to be nurtured, and...
Getting started on writing a book isn't as hard as it sounds. You don't need a plan and an outline. In fact, all you need are two things: time and one idea.
There are three secrets to writing a novel. Unfortunately nobody knows what they are.
I began writing late; my first articles and stories were published after I was thirty, and I was motivated by money. Money is not a bad motivation. The need to eat keeps us from laziness, and the fact...
Writer's block isn't always a problem. It can be a process of writing that helps us write better.
Don't let others define your dreams.
I write to escape. I haven't managed it yet, but I'm working on it
There is only one thing a writer can write about: what is in front of his senses at the moment of writing... I am a recording instrument... I do not presume to impose story plot continuity... Insofar...
I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day.
Usually naive interviewers hover between two mutually contradictory convictions: one, that a text we call creative develops almost instantaneously in the mystic heat of inspirational raptus; or the ot...
I miss the days when I was alone with my characters and no one else knew them except me.
When you know what you want to communicate, ask yourself: Who is my audience and what does he know about the subject?
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.
The structured form of an outline helps us to keep track of all plot lines in a series, and of course, this diminishes the chance of plot holes for us.
Write your own part. It's the only way I've ever gotten anywhere. It is much harder work, but sometimes you have to take destiny into your own hands. It is much harder work, but sometimes you have to...