It was a dark and stormy night. . .perfect for staying indoors and writing a novel!
You haven't seen yourself until you look through the eyes of your characters.
There's no rule for better writing. Make your own rules, and see what works best for you.
More and more I don't have any philosophy about writing, except that it is something we can do if God is good to us. Of course we are the ones who have to do the paperwork.
I write not because I want to but because I am destined to.
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...
Process is nothing; erase your tracks. The path is not the work. I hope your tracks have grown over; I hope birds ate the crumbs; I hope you will toss it all and not look back.
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.
Give the reader what they want, just not the way they expect it.
Sifting through long forgotten stories of my childhood and writing on a daily basis, I became obsessed with following the threads of my memories, one leading to another. I start pulling on a single, s...
Research" is a wonderful word for writers. It serves as excuse for EVERYTHING
You can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.
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...
You haven't seen yourself until you look through the eyes of your characters.~Tanela Hicks
Writing is the act of finding out what I think.
In the seventies I used to work in the bedroom of my flat at a little table. I worked in longhand with a fountain pen. I'd type out a draft, mark up the typescript, type it out again. Once I paid a pr...
Writing is an art and a skill that can be developed
When you are writing, you must treat it as the most important thing in the world, even when you know it is not. This helps you take the job seriously and do your best on everything you write.
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...
When writers stop believing in their own stories, readers tend to sense it.