One of the biggest problems for beginning writers is this…

Usually in stories there are big problems in the beginning or couples are pulling away, there's a lot of bitterness.

— Amy Ryan

I know who I am, you have no need to explain..!!

— Anonymous

For those who are understood no need to explain

— Ryan Lochte

I don't need to explain myself to you. YOU'RE NOT MY MOTHER!

— ALYSSA

Don't mistake a good setup for a satisfying conclusion - many beginning writers end their stories when the real story is just ready to…

— Stanley Schmidt

A writer, or a beginning writer, is faced by the huge walls of self-consciousness. Most people think, "What if I say the wrong thing?…

— Richard Bach

Beginning writers are often advised to 'write what you know,' and since I knew about quilters - their quirks, their inside jokes, their disputes…

— Jennifer Chiaverini

What’s strange is how many beginning writers seem to think that grammar is irrelevant, or that they are somehow above or beyond this subject…

— Francine Prose

Beginning writers must appreciate the prerequisites if they hope to become writers. You pay your dues - which takes years.

— Alex Haley

I have only one bit of advice to beginning writers: be sure your novel is read by Rodgers and Hammerstein.

— James A. Michener

Be persistent. Editors change; tastes change; editorial markets change. Too many beginning writers give up too easily.

— John Jakes

So often with beginning writers, the story that they want to start with is the most important story of their life - my molestation,…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Less really is more. It's a tendency of beginning writers to want to prove what they're talking about by going too far with description.…

— Brad Thor

“It seems important to me that beginning writers ponder this—that since 1964, I have never had a book, story or poem rejected that was…

— Joseph Hansen

Most beginning writers - and I was the same - are like chefs trying to cook great dishes that they've never tasted themselves. How…

— Daniel Quinn