People wonder why you choose certain subjects to write about. The truth is: you don't really. They choose you
The only thing you really need to be a writer is time. Regular, consistent time, quality time when you're not tired. I write on the bus to and from work, that's my time, 1 or 2 hours every single day....
Build a strong foundation and you can reach even the most unthinkable heights.
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...
...a thriller's toughest trick: carefully assembling everything we think we know, until it reveals the one thing we didn't see coming.
Writing at its best is simply taking dictation from your soul.
Write the ending first and then you'll know before the opening sentence that it's going to be a good book.
It's not the writing part that's hard. What's hard is sitting down to write.What keeps us from sitting down is Resistance.
The Throes of Poetry - Hymns formed from groans of acquaintance, its rhythm weaving between tranquility, compassions, and peril - like bare feet stomping on broken glass - bleeds, recoils, then steps...
Writing is daydreaming with ink.
All good writers are thieves. The best get away with a heist.
Write, what you feel about. Feel, what you have written about.
I like what I do. Some writers have said in print that they hated writing and it was just a chore and a burden. I certainly don't feel that way about it. Sometimes it's difficult. You know, you always...
I make up as little as possible. I spend a great deal of time on research, on finding all the available accounts of a scene or incident, finding out all the background details and the biographies of t...
I read in order to write. I read out of obsession with writing.
Someone asked me, 'How do you write a book?' I said, 'I live with a pen in one hand.
Writing became such a process of discovery that I couldn't wait to get to work in the morning: I wanted to know what I was going to say. ~Sharon O'Brien
Writing is like painting a painting. Layer over layer over layer.
Do what you love...
Confession: I don't want to be one of my characters. I'm mean to them sometimes. Really mean.
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