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Read a ton, write every day if you can, and don't mimic another writer's style. Find your own voice.
— James Patterson
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
Tell it fast before you get scared and silence yourself. You'll never wish you'd held back a little more.
— Catherynne M Valente
Every word I write is another stroke that takes me to the shore of a completed book.
— Rob Bignell, Editor
A writer without authority? Impossible. as Kenneth Burke says, creation implies authority in the sense of originator ...
— John Geddes
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
My ideas are a shapeless mass that my writing molds into beauty.
— 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
Don't let your ego write checks your character can't cash.
another from the world of tweets — Robin Glasser
another from the world of tweets — Robin Glasser
As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.
— Ernest Hemingway,
Writing is a holy occupation.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
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
It's honestly a wonder that writing groups produce writers at all, instead of walking insecurities raised entirely in echo chambers of bad advice.
— Brandon Sanderson
There's really only one good writing habit: You must write constantly.
— Rob Bignell, Editor
Writing is a form of art. Do not use New Times Roman or Arial because it's boring and hackneyed.
— Natalya Vorobyova
Writers don't suffer from insanity, they depend upon it!
— Avijeet Das
Write the truest sentence you know. Then write another."
Hemingway's advice to other young writers in "A Moveable Feast. — Ernest Hemingway,
Hemingway's advice to other young writers in "A Moveable Feast. — Ernest Hemingway,
It's been my experience that most writers don't talk about their craft
they just do it — Alfred Lansing
they just do it — Alfred Lansing
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
...being "rather unique" is no more possible than being rather pregnant.
— William Zinsser
You cannot write unless you write much.
— W. Somerset Maugham
My best advice for writers is: Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly - all these make for great stories.
— Chuck Palahniuk
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
Every wound is a word.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I'm often dismayed by the sludge I see appearing on my screen if I approach writing as a task--the day's work--and not with some enjoyment.
— William Zinsser
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
Live inside your stories, yes, but do not hide behind them.
— Christy Hall
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
Your first written sentence is the foundation of all of your dreams.
— Rob Bignell, Editor
You must begin writing your life book.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
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
But if you needed to HAVE AN IDEA, boredom could be to a roadblocked novel what chemotherapy was to a cancer patient.
— Stephen King
When you catch an adjective, kill it - perhaps the best possible advice for budding writers.
— Mark Twain
The written word is greatest sacred documentation.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The only difference between writers and people who don't write is that writers aren't afraid to display their demons.
— Carla H. Krueger
We write to strengthen our soul and the spirit of other souls.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Just write. That's my only tip. And read. I guess that's two.
— Shannon Celebi
When I reach for my pen, nothing is out of reach.
— Rob Bignell, Editor
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
Don't be afraid of what you're creating.
— Christy Hall
I write to shed my sacred sorrows.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Be daring to push your ideas forward.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Don't try to describe an orgasm if you've never had one.
— Marty Rubin
There is always, always, always something to write about.
— Rob Bignell, Editor
The writer, his eye on the finish line, never gave enough thought to how to run the race.
— William Zinsser
Let failure be your workshop. See it for what is is: the world walking you through a tough but necessary semester, free of tuition. (from Workbook)
— Steven Heighton
To be a better cook, cook more. To be a better writer, read more.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Through the act of writing, a writer learns more about himself than he could ever imagine.
— Rob Bignell, Editor
INTERVIEWER:
What specific piece of advice would you give to young writers?
MALAMUD:
Write your heart out. — Bernard Malamud
What specific piece of advice would you give to young writers?
MALAMUD:
Write your heart out. — Bernard Malamud
Some writers closet themselves - I write wherever I am because that's where life is happening ...
— John Geddes
Every book I've read appears in my writing.
— Rob Bignell, Editor
Writing is the neck muscle allowing us to see the important stuff in our periphery.
— Rob Bignell, Editor
Begin to write, your heart will flow with sacred words.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
[G]ive nothing centrality, because writing is about continually shifting weight from one thing and moment to the other.
— Amit Chaudhuri
Biographies are best when written chronologically. Boring people don't make for good biographies.
— Deana J. Driver
Save your work, you may never know when the light will go off.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Cast a spell and the small flaws don't matter. (From Workbook)
— Steven Heighton
Developing your voice takes ...
time and practice. — Darynda Jones
time and practice. — Darynda Jones
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
..here's the editor's prescription, writer: 1000 words daily until next checkup.
— Rob Bignell, Editor
Your writing should be filled with simple complexities and complex simplicities. Because that is life.
— Christy Hall
I have only one bit of advice to beginning writers: be sure your novel is read by Rodgers and Hammerstein.
— James A. Michener
It's better to be remembered for what you said, not what you earned.
— Carla H. Krueger
I do not recommend writing a screenplay in two weeks.
— Christy Hall
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
My advice to young writers is, if you can't marry money, at least don't marry envy.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Writers are born, not created.
— Tim Campbell
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
Upon the one thing every writer absolutely must have, and that is intellectual curiosity.
— Philip Athans
People say that writers write for money. From my own experience that's not true. I write for me. I publish for money.
— Greg Curtis
Someone asked me, 'How do you write a book?' I said, 'I live with a pen in one hand.
— Carla H. Krueger
Until you take a pen to write, then you will see the miracle of writing.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
You can only write well ,what you have lived.
— Lailah Gifty Akita