Writing, is not a race. Is to distill the soul letter by letter in a slow and delicate process that will take years.
Books most certainly don't write themselves, but life does. When in doubt about what to write, use your own life.
I've discovered that sometimes writing badly can eventually lead to something better. Not writing at all leads to nothing.
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....
Do what you love...
Briefer is better, so learn to write tight
Writers need faith, or else we can never trust the action of our words!
At it's best,the sensation of writing is that of any unmerited grace. It is handed to you, but only if you look for it. You search, you break your heart, your back, your brain, and then - and only the...
I don't fire up the prose. I just tell it straight and don't fool around with it.
A writer's problem does not change. He himself changes and the world he lives in changes but his problem remains the same. It is always how to write truly and, having found what is true, to project it...
Writing is like making love, editing is like giving your great grandfather a sponge bath.
Writer's block isn't always a problem. It can be a process of writing that helps us write better.
People wonder why you choose certain subjects to write about. The truth is: you don't really. They choose you
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...
You don't teach a person how to write as much as you teach that person how to survive the writing process.
It's basically an act of faith, hoping that a small idea will unspool into a bigger whole. Sometimes, in fact often, it doesn't and it just runs out of steam. The hope for me is that it will snowball....
I began writing late; my first articles and stories were published after I was thirty, and I was motivated by money. Money is not a bad motivation. The need to eat keeps us from laziness, and the fact...
Writing fluency sometimes needs an intense agony somewhere in your mind
On the worst day of writing, the work is instructive. On the best day, the act is transcendent.
Dedicating a writing session to someone is like sending a prayer for them out into the world. I will never know if my writing, my dedication to them, my prayer for them made any difference in their li...
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