Best practices Quote by Steve Slaunwhite

Never try to copy other writers, and never try to have a formula. It has to come from your heart and soul.

— Elizabeth Berg

The writer I adore is Ivy Compton-Burnett.I couldn't get more than a few pages in when I first read her. In many ways, she…

— Hilary Mantel

As much as I really like the screenwriting thing, the novel is where the author has so much control.

— Gillian Flynn

Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good.

— Stephen King

“For Gone Girl, I knew Nick and Amy had to be very believable, so I made ipod playlists for them, and knew their netflix…

— Gillian Flynn

read widely, not in order to copy someone else's style, but to learn to appreciate and recognize good writing and to see how the…

— P. D. James

Margot Livesey, my dear friend, reads all the drafts of what I write, and I read hers. We have an intense working relationship. I've…

— Andrea Barrett

Love your material. Nothing frightens the inner critic more than the writer who loves her work. The writer who is enamored of her material…

— Allegra Goodman

People who want to express themselves effectively can learn a lot from the hard-won concision of the copywriter.

— David Droga

Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.

— Yann Martel

Mediocre writers borrow; great writers steal.

— T. S. Eliot

“Writing all day every day is good, but it’s not good enough. You need to have your clone ghostwriting for you too.”

— Jarod Kintz