Mostly, we authors must repeat ourselves – F. Scott Fitzgerald QUOTES FOR WRITERS
We have two or three great and moving experiences in our lives – experiences so great and moving that it doesn’t seem at the time anyone else has been so … Continue reading
The Art of Making Readers Feel Pleasantly Uncomfortable…M.R.James HALLOWEEN QUOTES FOR WRITERS
I definitely prefer the daylight population of the playing fields to that which comes there after dark. A ghost story of which the scene is laid in the twelfth or … Continue reading
Why Books Are Our Best Friends – Alain de Botton QUOTES FOR WRITERS
Even those who love us get us wrong. They tell us who we are but miss things out. They claim to know what we need, but forget to ask us … Continue reading
What I am…what we all are…James Baldwin QUOTES FOR WRITERS
I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all. James Baldwin
Why a Physical Dictionary is better – Rachel del Valle QUOTES FOR WRITERS
Wikipedia and Google answer questions with more questions, opening up pages of information you never asked for. But a dictionary builds on common knowledge, using simple words to explain more … Continue reading
Writing is Hard Work – Stephen King QUOTES FOR WRITERS
Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.Stephen King Photo Credit: Craig Whitehead on Unsplash
Writing About Real People and Real Events – Anne Lamott QUOTES FOR WRITERS
You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.Anne Lamott Photo Credit: David Hinkle on Unsplash
Find A Good Place To Write and Stick To It – Twyla Tharp QUOTES FOR WRITERS
There is no ideal condition for creativity. What works for one person is useless for another. The only criterion is this: Make it easy on yourself. Find a working environment … Continue reading
Don’t reveal – withhold! David Mamet on how to keep an audience’s attention QUOTES FOR WRITERS
How do we keep the audience’s attention? Certainly not by giving them more information but, on the contrary, by withholding information—by withholding all information except that information in the absence … Continue reading
There’s Only One Requirement if You Want to Be A Writer – Stephen King QUOTES FOR WRITERS
A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.Stephen King Photo … Continue reading
What To Read When You’re Writing – Terry Pratchett QUOTES FOR WRITERS
If you are going to write, say, fantasy – stop reading fantasy. You’ve already read too much. Read other things; read westerns, read history, read anything that seems interesting, because … Continue reading
Persist, persist, persist! says Lincoln Michel QUOTES FOR WRITERS
The writers who succeed in my experience are the ones who submit constantly, who start the next novel when the current one is rejected, who keep querying. I might go … Continue reading
Theft in Poetry – T.S. Eliot QUOTES FOR WRITERS
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. The good poet welds his … Continue reading
Writing Advice that Covers Every Situation – Dr Louise Tondeur QUOTES FOR WRITERS
Often advice for writers assumes that 1) you want to be published and 2) that you’re only writing one particular thing, which isn’t necessarily true. But there is one piece … Continue reading
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