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Never give advice to your children unless you have it in writing and notarized.
— Marshall B. Rosenberg
Some general advice about writing:WRITE MORE, DO OTHER STUFF LESS. — Brian K. Vaughan
Tell it fast before you get scared and silence yourself. You'll never wish you'd held back a little more.
— Catherynne M Valente
Question marks are shaped like hooks for a reason: they will hook the reader and drag them deeper into the story
— Chuck Wendig
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
When you're speaking in the truest, most intimate voice about your life, you are speaking with the universal voice.
— Cheryl Strayed
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
How do you paint a writer's block?Just fill it with fifty shades of black. — Ana Claudia Antunes
Good writing just isn't that common.
— Eric Flint
Hone your writing skills as if they were your finest weapons of war. For in the literary arena, your pen will truly be your sword.
— Max Hawthorne
Publish. Be damned. Repeat.
— Tassa Desalada
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
The best kind of happiness is a habit you're passionate about.
— Shannon L. Alder
To gain the book, one must give up all hope for the book. It is the only way the book can get written.
— Bonnie Friedman
Great books make a great life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Don't have every dialog go in a straight line to solve the problem. Let your characters argue, be sarcastic, disagree or joke around.
— Dan Alatorre
Not knowing stuff - like how your story ends before you start writing - is the seed of a lot of writer's block.
— Dan Alatorre
How do I know what I think until I see what I say?
— E. M. Forster
Every experience is story to be written.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
You can't take it personally when something you have written sucks. Just delete it and write something else.
— Gudjon Bergmann
Writing is easy. Writing a publishable book is hard.
— Eliza Green
I say fuck the old advice 'show, don't tell.' It's called story TELLING for a reason, and I'll stick to it!
— Ashly Lorenzana
Get down, get naked, get savage.
— Ron Carlson
Devote yourself to reading, learning and writing.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The best advice on writing I've ever received was from William Zinsser: 'Be grateful for every word you can cut.'
— Christopher Buckley
Begin to write, your heart flow with sacred words.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Give all that you can. No more. No less.
Every. Single. Day. — Christy Hall
Writer's Block: making authors miserable since the Stone Age.
— Max Hawthorne
Historical gap is created due to missing written records.
— 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
Great content inspires action.
— Dane Brookes
Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
You need to take out the stuff that's just sitting there and doing nothing. No slackers allowed! All meat, no filler!
— Stephen King
From my writer's workshop, Know when it's time to put everything you've got on the page. Then, rip open a vein and do it!
— Heather Burch
Inspiration for my short stories grows from a psychic kernel, a vision of some sort or an eccentric, colorful dream.
— Lawren Leo
Writing starts with living.
— L.L. Barkat
On the whole, I think you should write biographies of those you admire and respect, and novels about human beings who you think are sadly mistaken.
— Penelope Fitzgerald
Raise the bar. Don't duck under it.
— Peter James West
Writing a book is a blood sport. If it doesn't hurt when you're done, you're probably doing something wrong.
— Kevis Hendrickson
Live inside your stories, yes, but do not hide behind them.
— Christy Hall
Tighten your prose so the story flows.
— Anna Dobritt
One does not travel, any more than one falls in love, to collect material. It is simply part of one's life ...
— Evelyn Waugh
If you aren't willing to put your best work out there, write for yourself. Don't ever publish.
— Eliza Green
It's not pain. It's raw material.
— Jo Bell
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
Never use the passive voice. Do not say, 'It will get done.' Say, 'I'll do it,' and then stick to a solid, unwavering deadline
— Gina Barreca
Read. Write. Read some more. Explore the universe through your writing. Practice and learn what moves you and what doesn't.
— Darynda Jones
We write to strengthen our soul and the spirit of other souls.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Develop the skill of writing to avoid errors but if you do make them, don't be demotivated
— Bernard Kelvin Clive
Writers will often find themselves steering by stars that are disturbingly in motion.
— William Strunk Jr.
I have made three rules of writing for myself that are absolutes: Never take advice. Never show or discuss work in progress. Never answer a critic.
— Raymond Chandler
On Writing: A multitude of improbabilities can be forgiven as long as enough plausibility has been established.
— Danielle Ackley-McPhail
A direct relationship exists between the caliber of the writing you read and the caliber of the writing you make.
— Robert Benson
I am grateful to all my readers; you inspired me to keep writing.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The written word is greatest sacred documentation.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
My best writing happens when I'm fighting to produce it.
— Carla H. Krueger
Clarity trumps all rules.
— C.E. McLean
When it comes to writing, clarity trumps all rules.
— C.E. McLean
When it comes to giving advice, never do so unless you've first received a request in writing, signed by a lawyer.
— Marshall B. Rosenberg
Write drunk (on emotion); edit sober (on rationality and intention).Faulkner, reimagined by me. — Christina Cooke
To be a better cook, cook more. To be a better writer, read more.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
You need the devotion to your work that a priest of God has for his.
— Ernest Hemingway,
Write what should not be forgotten.
— Isabel Allende
As a writer, the main skill you need is curiosity. As a reader, the main tool you need is open-mindedness.
— Gloria D. Gonsalves
Don't let yourself slip and get any perfect characters ... keep them people, people, people, and don't let them get to be symbols.
— Ernest Hemingway,
Any advice for how to be a successful author?""Yes. Don't be a woman. And be dead. And do both at the same time, if you can. — Michelle Franklin
Repeat the mantra: Writing is when I make the words. Editing is when I make them not shitty.
— Chuck Wendig
If you can master the opening, you will be leaps and bounds ahead of the competition.
— Darynda Jones
Shut up and write! The world does not need to know the progress of yourwriting every 5 minutes. — Primadonna Angela
What prevents you from fully expressing yourself?
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Writing is a solitary endeavor, being an author is not.
— Karen A. Chase
If you're going to have a complicated story, you must work to a map; otherwise you can never make a map of it afterwards.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
Be daring to push your ideas forward.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
