Write the ending first and then you'll know before the opening sentence that it's going to be a good book.
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...
I believe that fiction with its untrammelled nature, speaks to no one, and by so doing, speaks to all.
Set fire to cities and nations, to hearts and minds, to the very core of every human spirit. Make sure your words seep into the skin of the reader, leaving trace minerals that sustain the ailing human...
Writings are thoughts in a defined moment.
Half the fun of writing a novel is finding out from other people later on what you actually meant.
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...
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.
Before the magisterial mess of Trevor Thomas's house, the orderly houses that most of us live in seem meagre and lifeless -- as, in the same way, the narratives called biographies pale and shrink in t...
The nerve which controls the pen winds itself about every fibre of our being, threads the heart, pierces the liver.
Writing is easy. Saying something that would make a difference is the task.
Allen Ginsberg instructs: First thought, best thought. Oh, to have my every spontaneous thought count as poetry! No draft after draft like a draft horse.Clayton Eshleman, laughing, said, 'First though...
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...
When I'm writing, I make words my b*tch. But when I'm editing, the words make me their b*tch. It all equals out in the end.
All good writers are thieves. The best get away with a heist.
Lyrics paved my teenage route to loving words. I take those passionate mini-stories with me everywhere.
For most of the process, nothing but faith, fueled by your own stubbornness, will be pulling you along. The work that you've done on the book so far won't be much comfort, because so much of it will b...
Don't over edit. Don't second-guess yourself, or your ideas. Just write. Write every day, and keep at it. Don't get discouraged with the rejections. Tape them up on your office wall, to remind you of...
Don't say it was "delightful"; make us say "delightful" when we've read the description.
Writing is easy. Writing a publishable book is hard.
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