Writing Advice Quotes
I tell everyone who asks me about writing...almost everyone has an idea for a book, and some even have a great ending, but it's that 290 or so pages in between that are tough!
Believe in yourself and start achieving your dream. It waits for you on the other side of the publish button.
Honesty makes stories real and characters memorable. From there, taking them to where they need to go will be all the development they need.
Repeat the mantra: Writing is when I make the words. Editing is when I make them not shitty.
Don't have every dialog go in a straight line to solve the problem. Let your characters argue, be sarcastic, disagree or joke around.
Read. Write. Read some more. Explore the universe through your writing. Practice and learn what moves you and what doesn't.
WHILE writing, just try to have fun with your ms. Enjoy the process, but push on. Always push toward the finish line!
I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear>
Any time a beloved character is killed off, it affects the audience in a very powerful way, especially in a series.
I've been rejected a hundred times. It just takes that one person who totally believes in you!
I think the first draft is so challenging because that elusive BALANCE is so challenging.
Not knowing stuff - like how your story ends before you start writing - is the seed of a lot of writer’s block.
The more time you can put between you and your manuscript, the more fresh your eyes become and the more mistakes you’ll catch.
What I can tell you is DO IT. Publish book one and get book two out as soon as possible. There are very few Harper Lee’s. Most of us are going to have to write a few books to get good at it.
Screw the beaten path! Do your thing. Write the best story you can. the rest will fall into place.
ALWAYS hook a reader. If a detail is unnecessary, it doesn't belong in your work, long or short! Make everything intriguing. If you have to describe a desk, make it awesome.
I learn from everything I do, right and wrong. I think it helps me grow as a writer and a person.
There is a light at the end of the tunnel. A finished manuscript is AWESOME! So go, go, go! *waves pompoms*
Writing is like knitting. Stitch after stitch, word by word, and before you know it you have a book ... or a jumper!
Our lives make awesome stories, especially if you don't get too attached to the thread of your own narrative.
If you have nothing good to say about someone, write a book about them. - Carmen Fox, Life Motto
Park your ego and listen to your readers. They can be your best friend or your worst enemy. But chances are you'll learn something from them.
Motivated authors sacrifice TV time, sleep, hobbies, and even family time.
There is no such thing as lack of time, only unclear priorities and lack of motivation. It is better to abandon a project than to work on it half-heartedly for a protracted period of time.
I don’t get writer's block because I don’t believe in it. I believe you sit in front of the computer and force your fingers to get something on the screen.
Never say you can't be a writer or a script writer, remember how well, characters in your dreams said their dialogues.
...my writing is a wild mustang - more thunderous than a lightning storm -and all my skill which I call art, is devoted to simply staying on...
...if you want your own distinctive voice, you first have to become someone...
...it's good to know wave and particle alpha code, but more than that, the writer must go to the heart of life ...
...some writers closet themselves - I write wherever I am because that's where life is happening ...
...is the writer a prophet or priest - does he show the truth or serve the truth?...
Be daring, take on anything. Don’t labor over little cameo works in which every word is to be perfect. Technique holds a reader from sentence to sentence, but only content will stay in his mind.
...it's merely writing, but you have to adjust your ear – I speak quietly – I sob – I whisper...
Write because you love it, not because you want to become rich. Your story will be better for it.
Lots of times I’m not crazy about the writing, but I keep moving ahead and somehow it gets better. The important thing is to move forward.
If you want to be a writer, you have to keep writing, all the time, and when you're not writing, be thinking about and planning writing.
You’re allowed to manipulate the environment, but not the character.
For every idea that's been done to DEATH, there's a child being BORN who hasn't read it yet. Don't kill your dragons.
