When you write a manuscript, it feels like being in a relationship with someone. You'll hate it, get bored with it, be pissed of, like you just want to break up. But, just like any relationship, you w...
A novelist is essentially a person who covers distance through his patience, slowly, like an ant. A novelist impresses us not by his demonic and romantic vision, but by his patience.
Pencil. Paper. Forget the world.
You're never as good a writer as you think you are, and you're never as bad. Just keep reading and writing, writing, writing.
It's all mine, it's all sacred.
When I write, I write obsessively. I try to pace myself, but some fires are too hot to put out.
I can't wait to get back to writing today so I can see what happens next Kim Cormack
Writers know all the good reasons for subjecting their work to a sharp trim. Early drafts are notorious for repetition, indirection and overdevelopment of the trivial.
There is one myth about writers that I have always felt was particularly pernicious and untruthful—the myth of the lonely writer, the myth that writing is a lonely occupation, involving much suffering...
I don't write to chase away my demons ~I wield my pen as a weapon...calling those bastards to war!
Rules such as "Write what you know," and "Show, don't tell," while doubtlessly grounded in good sense, can be ignored with impunity by any novelist nimble enough to get away with it. There is, in fact...
I do not distinguish between the construction of a book and that of a painting and I always proceed from the simple to the complex." - 1946
The difference between wanting to write and having written is one year of hard, relentless labour. It's a bridge you have to build all by yourself, all alone, all through the night, while the world go...
The act of putting pen to paper encourages pause for thought, this in turn makes us think more deeply about life, which helps us regain our equilibrium.
From the beginning, I did not intend to create a typical classic fantasy. I wanted an organic, harmonious world where my story could evolve. If this world needed gnomes, I put them in there. As for dr...
Just write. That's my only tip. And read. I guess that's two.
Fruition-Think of writing as a harvest.You till the ground.Plant.Water.Wait.Apple trees take years to bear fruit.Harvest.Clean.Process.Then you have apple pie.
When I write, it feels like there are two little creatures that sit on each of my shoulders. One whispers, "You can do this. You've got what it takes." The other sounds like my mother-in-law.
Yeah, episodic doesn't work. Your coolest character needs something big and meaningful to do. Otherwise, well, it's just narrative shit.
Writing fluency sometimes needs an intense agony somewhere in your mind