A day of bad writing is always better than a day of no writing.
Day after day, week after week; writing great fiction takes time, emotion, skill and effort.
Action is the pulse of any good story, but the character is the heart. If the action has no consequence to the character, the story loses heart.
Don't analyse your muse too closely, if at all – she'll turn away.
The biggest thing for aspiring writers I would say is that writing is hard work. You can’t sustain the fantasy that it should somehow be otherwise for you because you are more special or more committe...
For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries—to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.
My job as a writer is simple. Write a book I’m proud of, and present it as a gift to the world. Some will love it.Some will hate it.That’s the nature of art.
