Advice Quotes
Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite:"Fool!" said my muse to me, "look in thy heart, and write.
Often as writers, we are surprised by what we learn about ourselves. It runs counter to what we’ve thought about who we are. But it is closer to the truth.
Through the act of writing, a writer learns more about himself than he could ever imagine.
Write for impact first, money second. If you do it the other way around, you’ll end up with less of either.
There is no ceremony, no initiation ritual, no secret hand-shake. All you need to be a writer is to write.
Make today the day you begin that awesome idea you have had for years. Now go, write this book, and remember that today is an important day in history.
Tell it fast before you get scared and silence yourself. You’ll never wish you’d held back a little more.
Biographies are best when written chronologically. Boring people don't make for good biographies.
Financial illiteracy is like being in a rain storm and trying to jump in between the raindrops... eventually it all catches you at the same time.
The ‘do nothing everything will be all right’ default plan is determined by the IRS and government.
At least it was love we were showing initially, and not hatred and violence like you did in the end.
To continue what one had been doing -- which was Dante's idea of hell -- is, I came to see, and the vision frightened me, easy in one's sixties.
This book is all about helping you get your name and message automatically posted online by others.
A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.
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!
Remember: when people tell you something's wrong or doesn't work, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what's wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong.
Nouns and verbs are the guts of the language. Beware of covering up with adjectives and adverbs.
People say that writers write for money. From my own experience that's not true. I write for me. I publish for money.
Good writing demands self-discipline and constant learning
Deal with your readers that theyare smart, and write a language thatsuits their intelligence.- How to write the best story-
The most basic rule of editing is that if you can’t bear to read it, no one else can either. So when you find yourself skimming, commit murder.
Writing a full length novel is very much like driving a car with snakes in your pants—you just never know what’s going to happen. -- James Scott Bell
Writer's block, for me, is merely a way of saying "I'm too lazy to sit down and give it the proper time." I want to be a progressive writer, not a lazy one.
What I am trying to achieve is a voice sitting by a fireplace telling you a story on a winter’s evening.
Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like all-embracing compassion.
When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away even if it's only a glass of water.
You can only write regularly if you’re willing to write badly… Accept bad writing as a way of priming the pump, a warm-up exercise that allows you to write well.
Write about only three things: what you love, what you hate, and what you’re deeply conflicted about.
I hate dialect. It gets in the way. If there is a need for dialect, you can render it quite easily by reproducing the rythm of that form of speech. Then you don't need to bother with silly spellings
