The only difference between writers and people who don't write is that writers aren't afraid to display their demons.
Yeah, episodic doesn't work. Your coolest character needs something big and meaningful to do. Otherwise, well, it's just narrative shit.
I've found that busting your ass on a daily basis to make your art good, clear, and meaningful creates the most luck.
I personally believe that one learns to write by writing.
The irony of a writer is he/she craves privacy to pen words that crave the public.
...a thriller's toughest trick: carefully assembling everything we think we know, until it reveals the one thing we didn't see coming.
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.
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...
I believe you can consider yourself a successful prose writer when the number of words you put on a page each day is equal to, or greater than, the number of milligrams of mind-altering chemicals you...
Writing is more about telling other peoples' stories than your own
Write what you love. Passion is the key to a good story.
All good writers are thieves. The best get away with a heist.
Only my characters truly know what's happening - I just hold the pen
You don't write because you want to say something. You write because you have something to say.
As a writer, the main skill you need is curiosity. As a reader, the main tool you need is open-mindedness.
Someone asked me, 'How do you write a book?' I said, 'I live with a pen in one hand.
Lyrics paved my teenage route to loving words. I take those passionate mini-stories with me everywhere.
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.
So much of reading and writing to me is about being elsewhere, no matter how much I love where I am.
I read the novel I had been writing for several months with an odd sense that it was the work of a stranger. I usually work in the dead hours of night and surprising the manuscript mid-morning reveale...
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