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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

You will not publish 100% of the books you don't write. — M. Kirin

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

Tell it fast before you get scared and silence yourself. You'll never wish you'd held back a little more. — Catherynne M Valente

Write for impact first, money second. If you do it the other way around, you'll end up with less of either. — Don Roff

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

There's just one advice for an aspiring writer; write. — Sci Furz

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

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

Plot comes from the mind but the characters come from the heart! — Varsha Dixit

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,

It's been my experience that most writers don't talk about their craft
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

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

You cannot write unless you write much. — W. Somerset Maugham

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

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

People quote proverbs without realizing they're really in awe of the authority of their truth and the power of their expression ... — John Geddes

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

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

When I reach for my pen, nothing is out of reach. — Rob Bignell, Editor

All great writers share one thing in common:

They finished their books. — M. Kirin

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

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

And as your writing evolves, what you need and get from it evolves. — Darynda Jones

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

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

The three rules to writing a novel;

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

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

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

Cast a spell and the small flaws don't matter. (From Workbook) — Steven Heighton

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

Developing your voice takes ...
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

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

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

When your novel first peeks its head into the world, it will look pretty much like every newborn: blotchy, hairless, and utterly confused. — Chris Baty

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

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

There is no such thing as an 'unemployed writer', only an unemployed mind — Kevin Cowdall

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

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

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

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

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