There is a difference between fresh and weird. You never want to throw your reader out of the story. Keep it fresh but natural.
Write what you love. Passion is the key to a good story.
The only difference between writers and people who don't write is that writers aren't afraid to display their demons.
[When asked for her advice to aspiring writers] Run! Just kidding. Sort of. Really, I think the best advice I can give is to wait for the book that compels you to write it-- the one that you eat, slee...
And now, I have another good reason to speed up my baby narratives to make my author's profile appear more respectable.
Don't worry about what you're writing or whether it's good or even whether it makes sense.
In reading we live hundreds lives, in writing we live thousands of lives.
Working on it.
Writing is not a numbers game. You should focus more on reaching the hearts of readers and building fans more than publishing a plethora of books that no one may care about.
Art is the overflow of emotion into action.
The skill of writing needs much patience, practicing, and time. There is no good writing from a quick effort, or a confused writer.
All kinds of mysterious phenomena exist in this world, but answers to most of them have come with advances in scientific knowledge. Love is the sole holdout-nothing can explain it. A Chinese writer by...
Poetic license is not a license to scribe recklessly.
While victors may get to write history, novelists get to write/right reality.
Never underestimate the power of the written word, especially when you put them down in your own voice.
Whenever I feel sad, I just take out my phone and listen to her laughter recorded in my online messenger.
Experience is the catalyst for all great stories.
If a writer writes something that he or she has never experienced, I think the reader can sense right away that it is garbage. The only thing that can replace experience, though, is imagination; howev...
It's a bizarre but wonderful feeling, to arrive dead center of a target you didn't even know you were aiming for.
Many a good story has been found in the bottom of a decent Rioja.