Writing advice Quote by Maxwell Perkins Download Open image ““Just get it down on paper, and then we’ll see what to do with it.”” — Maxwell Perkins ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Writing advice
“And I think, If i dared to ever open that paper, this would be the place.” — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“I didn't throw the paper away. Maybe I should have. Oh, the things you know in retrospect.” — Ilsa J. Bick Copy Share Image
“Wake up, you idiots! Whatever made you think paper was so valuable?” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I feel like a crumpled up piece of paper that has something really important written on it. But no one will ever know what… — Samantha Young Copy Share Image
Writing, like drawing is an art, and whatever conveys the meaning is justified. — Maxwell Perkins Copy Share Image
Editors are extremely fallible people, all of them. Don't put too much trust in them. — Maxwell Perkins Copy Share Image
If you are not discouraged about your writing on a regular basis, you may not be trying hard enough. Any challenging pursuit will encounter… — Maxwell Perkins Copy Share Image
What we publishers think is that our function is to bring everything out into the open, on the theory that we have an adult… — Maxwell Perkins Copy Share Image
Of the whole public not a handful can understand the artist's point of view or the writer's conscience. — Maxwell Perkins Copy Share Image
It is those people who know that they are right because some outside or higher power conveys the conviction to them who do the… — Maxwell Perkins Copy Share Image
I do not think you should read about writing while you are writing. — Maxwell Perkins Copy Share Image
It often puzzles me when people think that matters connected with sex ought to be suppressed. Sex itself cannot be suppressed, and the efforts… — Maxwell Perkins Copy Share Image
For real self esteem is not derived from the great things you've done, the things you won. The mark you've made - but an… — Maxwell Perkins Copy Share Image
I do not think anyone can read War and Peace too much. I read it six times... — Maxwell Perkins Copy Share Image
“But let the wise be warned against too great readiness at explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“The sooner you finish procrastinating, the sooner you can get back to your art.” — Stephanie Lennox Copy Share Image
“I know it's difficult in the beginning. But, listen. If you have the impulse to write, do yourself a favor, do the world a… — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
The best writing advice I had was [in] ‘Heinlein’s Rules for Writers’ by (American science fiction author) Robert A. Heinlein. His first rule is… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Modern writing at its worst does not consist in picking out words for the sake of their meaning and inventing images in order to… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Q: Do you have any advice for upcoming writers who want to pen weird stories? A: READ, damn it. Fill your brain to the… — T.E. Grau Copy Share Image
“Let us not neglect the forbidden. Let us not sophisticate ourselves out of the cheap thrill and chill of it: the story told for… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“Writing a book is a blood sport. If it doesn't hurt when you're done, you're probably doing something wrong.” — Kevis Hendrickson Copy Share Image
“I'm going to write a novel and get it published. I'm going to do it because writing a novel is worthwhile and because I… — Randy Ingermanson Copy Share Image