Some writers write to forget. Some forget to write.
The secret to good writing is to use small words for big ideas, not to use big words for small ideas.
Some artists benefit less from being interviewed than they do from being left alone.
When a person sets out to learn from others and not to teach others he becomes a true writer.
Every writer should know their target. Aim for the heart ~ hit that and all which follows is sheer ecstasy.
It's better to be remembered for what you said, not what you earned.
Books are like rivers, meandering this way and that, but taking us on a steady, flowing course to somewhere different.
Enmerson's interest is in the workshop phase, the birthing stage of art, not the museum moment, the embalming phase. Poetry mimics Creation and is therefore sacred. More precisely, just as God may ind...
Rules such as "Write what you know," and "Show, don't tell," while doubtlessly grounded in good sense, can be ignored with impunity by any novelist nimble enough to get away with it. There is, in fact...
When I'm writing I don't want anyone else in the room - including myself.
Nouns and verbs are the guts of the language. Beware of covering up with adjectives and adverbs.
Write what readers want to read, which isn’t necessarily what you want to write.
Fiction though it is a fiction, should be written in a way that it feels like a reality, a reality every reader willingly or sometimes unwillingly goes through, until the reader finishes reading and s...
We need to boost each other to get to the top. It is much more effective than stepping on each other.
You can swap the message around, and whatever the particular norm is, or whatever the particular message is, when you put your pet-peeve message before story, odds are you are going to bore the shit o...
Maugham then offers the greatest advice anyone could give to a young author: "At the end of an interrogation sentence, place a question mark. You'd be surprised how effective it can be.
The skill of writing needs much patience, practicing, and time. There is no good writing from a quick effort, or a confused writer.
Writing as a creative art flourishes only when there are no rules. Rules stifle you from entering the silent and forbidden spaces where the core of the story is waiting to be revealed.
If I don't stay in and write, I feel like a prisoner.
Tighten your prose so the story flows.
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