Planning doesn’t take the fun out of it – bestselling crime fiction author Sophie Hannah QUOTES FOR WRITERS
The biggest lie uttered by writers about planning is that it somehow limits or stifles creativity. This is absolutely untrue. Planners simply divide their writing process into two equally important … Continue reading
You should write because…advice from the author of Brokeback Mountain QUOTES FOR WRITERS
You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest … Continue reading
What a writer must do…William Faulkner QUOTES FOR WRITERS
He must never be satisfied with what he does. It never is as good as it can be done. Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. … Continue reading
Why I read – Zadie Smith QUOTES FOR WRITERS
I am fascinated to presume, as a reader, that many types of people, strange to me in life, might be revealed, through the intimate space of fiction, to have griefs … Continue reading
“…nothing means anything until the next day when you do it again…” Ernest Hemingway on writing QUOTES FOR WRITING
You write until you come to a place where you still have your juice and know what will happen next and you stop and try to live through until the … Continue reading
Children don’t want small and cosy – children’s author Clementine Beauvais QUOTES FOR AUTHORS
Children love all things big, and not just dinosaurs. They can cope with complicated words they’ve never seen before: that’s what they’ve been doing non-stop since they were born. They … Continue reading
How to find inspiration – Anne Tyler QUOTES FOR WRITERS
…the novelist Anne Tyler likes to keep the windows open to hear ordinary life outside. She writes in longhand, then types her words out, then records her words, listens to them, and … Continue reading
Good prose is more muscle than fat, says Ursula Le Guin QUOTES FOR WRITERS
Adjectives and adverbs are good and rich and fattening. The main thing is not to overindulge … I would recommend to all storytellers a watchful attitude and a thoughtful, careful … Continue reading
Yeats on what the world has to offer QUOTES FOR WRITERS
The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.W.B. Yeats Photo by Viktor Forgacs on Unsplash
Writers should be wracked with guilt and self-hatred – Harlan Coben QUOTES FOR WRITERS
There are days you just can’t write. Fill them with self-loathing. What, snowflake, you wanted me to tell you it’s okay to feel this way? It’s not. On the days … Continue reading
Toni Morrison in her own words QUOTES FOR WRITERS
You are your own stories and therefore free to imagine and experience what it means to be human without wealth. What it feels like to be human without domination over … Continue reading
Why Writers Should Work Out….QUOTES FOR WRITERS
I find that the hardest work of my writing is done in my subconscious brain, somewhere in the back of my skull far out of the reach of my control. … Continue reading
The Reason for Bad Writing – Stephen King QUOTES FOR WRITERS
Bad writing is more than a matter of shit syntax and faulty observation; bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal to tell stories about what people actually do― to … Continue reading
Advice to young writers from playwright and screenwriter Lilian Hellman QUOTES FOR WRITERS
They’re fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don’t listen to writers talking about writing or themselves. Lillian Hellman
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