Some writers are the kind of solo violinists who need complete silence to tune their instruments. Others want to hear every member of the orchestra—they’ll take a cue from a clarinet, from an oboe, ev...
I went on steadily trying to 'find out how to'; but I wrote two or three novels without feeling that I had made much progress. It was not until I wrote Ethan Frome that I suddenly felt the artisan's f...
I miss the days when I was alone with my characters and no one else knew them except me.
Always remember that writing is an alliance between author and reader. With every line we put down on the page, we need to leave room for the reader's imagination and intellect.
Writing, is not a race. Is to distill the soul letter by letter in a slow and delicate process that will take years.
Writing means sharing. It's part of the human condition to want to share things - thoughts, ideas, opinions.
When you know what you want to communicate, ask yourself: Who is my audience and what does he know about the subject?
Constant work, constant writing and constant revision. The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a sponge. What he takes in he takes in normally the way any person takes i...
In writing I am seduced by the sound of words and by the interaction of their sound and sense.
I wrote the last sentence of in early April and stumbled out of my apartment and into the beautiful spring feeling panicked and amazed. There is no single experience in my life as a writer to match t...
Sometimes in fiction you had to mute reality in order to make it seem more believable.
You haven't seen yourself until you look through the eyes of your characters.~Tanela Hicks
I think that writing should be honest and simple, and it should say something about what it means to be a person. When God is good to us, we write in such a way that the act of reading becomes a pleas...
Research" is a wonderful word for writers. It serves as excuse for EVERYTHING
If writing didn't require thinking then we'd all be doing it.
Now the thing is no longer a vision: it is paper.
It was a dark and stormy night. . .perfect for staying indoors and writing a novel!
He could not put down a word without suspecting that it might be the wrong one and that if he held back for another day the intermediate experience would provide the right one. There was no end to tha...
The time to being writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is you really want to say.
There's no rule for better writing. Make your own rules, and see what works best for you.