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If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves. — Lillian Hellman

You ought to stop everything and write the sacred-words as its flashes in your mind. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Books are like rivers, meandering this way and that, but taking us on a steady, flowing course to somewhere different. — Carla H. Krueger

The dreamtime of creative work is a turnstile to eternity. (from Workbok) — Steven Heighton

My best advice to writers is get yourself born in an interesting place. — Pierre Berton

Every word I write is another stroke that takes me to the shore of a completed book. — Rob Bignell, Editor

My advice for writers is to get a good day job. It takes the pressure off writing if you have a job that pays the bills. — Abraham Verghese

Never be afraid to write what you believe. If the message speaks the truth, others will fear your words for you. — Rob Bignell, Editor

The divine thoughts comes from God, we are only vessel for its transmission. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Replace your old books with the books you've always wanted to write. — Rob Bignell, Editor

Someone should take a vacuum cleaner to his sentences. — John Searles

If you do not want to be forgotten as soon as you are dead...be read, or try coming back and pull the feet of those who are still alive instead! — Ana Claudia Antunes

Write the truest sentence you know. Then write another."
Hemingway's advice to other young writers in "A Moveable Feast. — Ernest Hemingway,

My most important piece of advice to all you would-be writers: When you write, try to leave out all the parts readers skip. — Elmore Leonard

I personally believe that one learns to write by writing. — Jack Jordan

Writers, like priests, should have compassion ... and a sensitivity to pain ... — John Geddes

INTERVIEWER:
What specific piece of advice would you give to young writers?

MALAMUD:
Write your heart out. — Bernard Malamud

My advice would be to write-never to stop writing, to keep it up all the time, to be painstaking about it, to write until you begin to write. — Gabriel Fielding

It's better to be remembered for what you said, not what you earned. — Carla H. Krueger

The best writers I've read possess oodles of self-doubt, yet claw their way up with each work and remain humble. Boastful ones, not so much. — Don Roff

But if you needed to HAVE AN IDEA, boredom could be to a roadblocked novel what chemotherapy was to a cancer patient. — Stephen King

How many writers still dare compare a woman to Nature, like Campion? - there is a garden in her face - how lovely ... — John Geddes

The only difference between writers and people who don't write is that writers aren't afraid to display their demons. — Carla H. Krueger

The writer, his eye on the finish line, never gave enough thought to how to run the race. — William Zinsser

I write to shed my sacred sorrows. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Anything that distracts from the story you are trying to tell should be promptly and mercilessly dealt with. — Craig Hart

Don't try to describe an orgasm if you've never had one. — Marty Rubin

It's good to write badly. Things can only get better. — Alan Dapre

I am dismayed to realize that much of the advice I used to parcel out to aspiring writers has passed its sell-by date. — Susan Orlean

There is always, always, always something to write about. — Rob Bignell, Editor

Best advice to writers - Read, write, read, write - repeat! — Lilly Cain

There is no ceremony, no initiation ritual, no secret hand-shake. All you need to be a writer is to write. — M. Kirin

My advice to aspiring writers is to read more, write more, and network more. More, more, and more. Then, after you've done all that, do it some more. — Jarod Kintz

If a writer starts worring about what he or she has left out or forgotten, they might not be able to write even a single line. — Baby Halder

Be daring to push your ideas forward. — Lailah Gifty Akita

To be a better cook, cook more. To be a better writer, read more. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Let life be the foundation. Be brave. Wander deep inside yourself to the little room no one knows about. Fling the door wide open and write. — Christy Hall

The lesson here is not to take Camus to the beach. — Leo X. Robertson

People can't read a book if they don't know it exists. All authors need to do marketing, regardless of how they published. — Jo Linsdell

To listen to critics, pro or con, and take their words to heart is to subcontract your self-esteem to strangers. (from Workbook) — Steven Heighton

Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

To unlock the writer's block is to keep writing until you can unknot the "not". If you cannot, then put a can in the plot and unwrap it a lot! — Ana Claudia Antunes

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 favor, and write. — Christy Hall

My advice to young writers is, if you can't marry money, at least don't marry envy. — Ursula K. Le Guin

The three rules to writing a novel;

1) Write
2) Write more
3) Keep writing — Sci Furz

You have to be in your middle thirties before you have anything worth saying. — Peter Bowen

I'm not talented or gifted. I'm a committed, meticulous workaholic. The only reason I succeed is because I refuse to fail. — Jessie Snow

I have only one bit of advice to beginning writers: be sure your novel is read by Rodgers and Hammerstein. — James A. Michener

Writers often torture themselves trying to get the words right. Sometimes you must lower your expectations and just finish it. — Don Roff

What is your advice to young writers?"
"Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes. — Charles Bukowski

[G]ive nothing centrality, because writing is about continually shifting weight from one thing and moment to the other. — Amit Chaudhuri

Begin to write, your heart will flow with sacred words. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Writing is the neck muscle allowing us to see the important stuff in our periphery. — Rob Bignell, Editor

We write to strengthen our soul and the spirit of other souls. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Until you take a pen to write, then you will see the miracle of writing. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The sooner you finish procrastinating, the sooner you can get back to your art. — Stephanie Lennox

Advice to beginning SF writers? Write a lot, finish what you write, and when it's done, keep sending it out for quite awhile. — Rudy Rucker