Writing Advice Quotes
Not knowing stuff - like how your story ends before you start writing - is the seed of a lot of writer’s block.
The more time you can put between you and your manuscript, the more fresh your eyes become and the more mistakes you’ll catch.
What I can tell you is DO IT. Publish book one and get book two out as soon as possible. There are very few Harper Lee’s. Most of us are going to have to write a few books to get good at it.
Screw the beaten path! Do your thing. Write the best story you can. the rest will fall into place.
ALWAYS hook a reader. If a detail is unnecessary, it doesn't belong in your work, long or short! Make everything intriguing. If you have to describe a desk, make it awesome.
I learn from everything I do, right and wrong. I think it helps me grow as a writer and a person.
There is a light at the end of the tunnel. A finished manuscript is AWESOME! So go, go, go! *waves pompoms*
Writing is like knitting. Stitch after stitch, word by word, and before you know it you have a book ... or a jumper!
Our lives make awesome stories, especially if you don't get too attached to the thread of your own narrative.
If you have nothing good to say about someone, write a book about them. - Carmen Fox, Life Motto
Park your ego and listen to your readers. They can be your best friend or your worst enemy. But chances are you'll learn something from them.
Motivated authors sacrifice TV time, sleep, hobbies, and even family time.
There is no such thing as lack of time, only unclear priorities and lack of motivation. It is better to abandon a project than to work on it half-heartedly for a protracted period of time.
Repeat the mantra: Writing is when I make the words. Editing is when I make them not shitty.
I shall be as brief as I can, for it is not by piling up detail that I hope to achieve my picture, but by putting the emphasis where I think it belongs.
If you want to be a writer, you have to keep writing, all the time, and when you're not writing, be thinking about and planning writing.
For every idea that's been done to DEATH, there's a child being BORN who hasn't read it yet. Don't kill your dragons.
You’re allowed to manipulate the environment, but not the character.
The only prophecy the artist can make with confidence is that he and his message will be misunderstood by a world that values all the wrong things.
Trust your instincts. Do not confuse ego with instinct. Ego has to be set aside if you want to improve, and we should always want to improve. There is no glass ceiling on being better.
Plot joined the expedition unwooed, as a necessary companion. It was not the scout. The scout was a certain mood. I followed that mood, and let the shape of the story flow from that.
I don’t get writer's block because I don’t believe in it. I believe you sit in front of the computer and force your fingers to get something on the screen.
Lots of times I’m not crazy about the writing, but I keep moving ahead and somehow it gets better. The important thing is to move forward.
Write because you love it, not because you want to become rich. Your story will be better for it.
...it's merely writing, but you have to adjust your ear – I speak quietly – I sob – I whisper...
Be daring, take on anything. Don’t labor over little cameo works in which every word is to be perfect. Technique holds a reader from sentence to sentence, but only content will stay in his mind.
...is the writer a prophet or priest - does he show the truth or serve the truth?...
...some writers closet themselves - I write wherever I am because that's where life is happening ...
...it's good to know wave and particle alpha code, but more than that, the writer must go to the heart of life ...
...if you want your own distinctive voice, you first have to become someone...
...my writing is a wild mustang - more thunderous than a lightning storm -and all my skill which I call art, is devoted to simply staying on...
Never say you can't be a writer or a script writer, remember how well, characters in your dreams said their dialogues.