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.
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...
Every writer should know their target. Aim for the heart ~ hit that and all which follows is sheer ecstasy.
If I don't stay in and write, I feel like a prisoner.
It's better to be remembered for what you said, not what you earned.
When I'm writing I don't want anyone else in the room - including myself.
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.
The skill of writing needs much patience, practicing, and time. There is no good writing from a quick effort, or a confused writer.
Don't let society's defined genre hold you down, be a free spirit and just write, let society be the one to decide where each piece fits in.
Plot comes from the mind but the characters come from the heart!
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...
We need to boost each other to get to the top. It is much more effective than stepping on each other.
Someone asked me, 'How do you write a book?' I said, 'I live with a pen in one hand.
Nouns and verbs are the guts of the language. Beware of covering up with adjectives and adverbs.
If you aren't willing to put your best work out there, write for yourself. Don't ever publish.
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