“If you only had a year left to live, what book would you write? Now, write that book.” — M. Kirin Copy Share Image
Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but that's the only way you can do anything really good. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Biographies are best when written chronologically. Boring people don't make for good biographies.” — Deana J. Driver Copy Share Image
“Daily life is always extraordinary when rendered precisely. We can unlock our lives with a pencil tip.” — Bonnie Friedman Copy Share Image
“It takes courage to violate expectations, but sometimes the reward is a new level of success.” — Donald Maass Copy Share Image
“The quietest ideas often become the loudest stories.” — Christina Collins” — Christina Collins Copy Share Image
“Originality is not writing the story that has never been told, but writing the stories only you can tell.” — M. Kirin Copy Share Image
“Reading your work out loud to yourself it's good. It helps even more if you read to people. If they start yawning… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
“One author said "I write because I want to live a footprint in the sands of history.” It's hard to live a… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“While the goal of a book is to create a positive emotional experience for the reader, the goal of the opening is… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
“Writing is like a lump of coal. Put it under enough pressure and polish it enough and you might just end up… — A.J. Dalton Copy Share Image
“For many writers the goal is a 1,000 words a day. For me - just give me one thought, and the words… — Garry Fitchett Copy Share Image
But if you don't understand that story is character and not just idea, you will not be able to breathe life into… — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
“Trust your instincts. Do not confuse ego with instinct. Ego has to be set aside if you want to improve, and we… — Catherine Cruzan Copy Share Image
“...a writer without authority? Impossible. as Kenneth Burke says, creation implies authority in the sense of originator…” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“Problem, purpose, conflict, goal. Use them. Think about them while you are in the planning phase of your novel; keep these elements… — Phyllis A. Whitney Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the hardest thing in all literature— at least I have found it so: by no voluntary effort can I accomplish it:… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
“Authors, such as William Zinsser, Steven Pinker, Natalie Goldberg, and Stephen King, who have all written exquisite books on the art and… — Gudjon Bergmann Copy Share Image
“The power of a writer is that he is a god of sorts. He can create his own worlds and populate them… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“Aspiring authors, get this through your head. Cover art serves one purpose, and one purpose only, to get potential customers interested long… — Larry Correia Copy Share Image
“Your story is not a picture of life; it lacks the elements of truth. And why? Simply because you run straight on… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
Riffing on language will create wonderful effects you never intended. Which leads me to this writing advice: 'Always take credit for good… — Roy Peter Clark Copy Share Image
“Being a writer all boils down to this: It's you, in a chair, staring at a page. And you're either going to… — Alessandra Torre Copy Share Image
“I’m sorry for writing you a four-page letter. I did not have time to write you a one-page letter.” — Stephen Asbury Copy Share Image
“Write what you know, and what do you know better than your own secrets?” — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
“People say that writers write for money. From my own experience that's not true. I write for me. I publish for money.” — Greg Curtis Copy Share Image
“To master magical realism, one must make the real seem unreal but, more importantly, make the unreal seem real.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“...it's good to know wave and particle alpha code, but more than that, the writer must go to the heart of life ...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“There is a ruthlessness to the creative act. It often involves a betrayal of the status quo.” — Alan Watt Copy Share Image
“Let your story grow. Let it surprise you, and it will certainly surprise your readers.” — M. Kirin Copy Share Image
“Words are the writer's sorcery, our dark arts and our sleight of hand. They're our enchantment and our temptation” — Karl Wiggins Copy Share Image
“Let at least one word of my writings impregnate the reader's heart.” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“...some writers closet themselves - I write wherever I am because that's where life is happening ...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“How do you feel when you read stuff written by dead authors? A visit by a ghost?” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
Begin with an individual, and before you know it you find that you have created a type; begin with a type, and… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Theoretically there's no reason one should get [writer's block], if one understands that writing, after all, is only writing, neither something one… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
“Admire the habits and accomplishments of other authors, but not to the extend it depresses or distracts you from accomplishing your own… — Sarah Gerdes Copy Share Image
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