Anyone who says writing is easy isn't doing it right.
(Dorothy) Dunnett is the master of the invisible, particularly in her later books. Where is this tension coming from? Why is this scene so agonizing? Why is this scene so emotional? Tension and emotio...
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...
My dear Keats go on, don't despair, collect incidents, study characters, read Shakespeare and trust in Providence.
Time to turn some phrases and place them on these here pages.
Writing is like gardening. Planting, watering, and weeding are not enough. You have to prune if you want growth.
Many a good story has been found in the bottom of a decent Rioja.
Nobody whispers it in your ear. It is like something you memorized once and forgot. Now it comes back and rips away your breath. You find and finger a phrase at a time; you lay it down cautiously, as...
The pressure disappeared with the first word he put on paper. He thought--while his hand moved rapidly--what a power there was in words; later, for those who heard them, but first for the one who foun...
I gradually realized that I was seeing another example of creative ebb, another step by another art on the road that may indeed end in extinction.
Today I will find something beautiful.Delicate pink blossoms on a cherry tree.The dove resting near the lemon buds.Sunbeams smiling from sky to earth.Smiling on me."Creating" in BREATHE IN
A short story I have written long ago would barge into my house in the middle of the night, shake me awake and shout, 'Hey,this is no time for sleeping! You can't forget me, there's still more to writ...
Writing is a struggle against silence.
If you have a story inside you but don't know where to start, look within and write from the heart, for the heart will never steer you wrong.
I'm writing. The pages are starting to stack up. My morale is improving the more I feel like a writer.
She was strangely unaware that she could look and see freshly for herself, as she wrote, without primary regard for what had been said before.
Every writer or wanna-be writer has ideas for books. The problem isn't finding an idea, it's choosing one
It's a terrible mistake to let the perfect get in the way of the good. If you wait to publish until you have written a great book, you will never publish anything. Great books happen by chance, not by...
Write what you love. Passion is the key to a good story.
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...
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