Writing Tips Quotes

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We need to boost each other to get to the top. It is much more effective than stepping on each other.

Maugham then offers the greatest advice anyone could give to a young author: "At the end of an interrogation sentence, place a question mark. You'd be surprised how effective it can be.

When a person sets out to learn from others and not to teach others he becomes a true writer.

Every writer should know their target. Aim for the heart ~ hit that and all which follows is sheer ecstasy.

Doing nothing can be as rewarding as doing something. And doing very little can be as productive, in a creative sense, as doing a lot.

Tighten your prose so the story flows.

Deal with your readers that theyare smart, and write a language thatsuits their intelligence.- How to write the best story-

Writing as a creative art flourishes only when there are no rules. Rules stifle you from entering the silent and forbidden spaces where the core of the story is waiting to be revealed.

The skill of writing needs much patience, practicing, and time. There is no good writing from a quick effort, or a confused writer.

My best writing happens when I’m fighting to produce it.

The beginning of every writing session is like setting down a road unknown.

Plot comes from the mind but the characters come from the heart!

It's better to be remembered for what you said, not what you earned.

Books are like rivers, meandering this way and that, but taking us on a steady, flowing course to somewhere different.

Someone asked me, 'How do you write a book?' I said, 'I live with a pen in one hand.

The only difference between writers and people who don't write is that writers aren't afraid to display their demons.

My job as a writer is simple.Write a book I’m proud of, and present it as a gift to the world.Some will love it.Some will hate it.That’s the nature of art.

Some artists benefit less from being interviewed than they do from being left alone.

Subtlety is the mark of confidence and is thus by far the hardest thing for a writer to achieve.

The secret to good writing is to use small words for big ideas, not to use big words for small ideas.

Here's one prophecy the writer can make - you'll never be rich and you'll probably be poor.

Writing is like a religion to those who don't practise, an act of faith for those who do.

Introduction of deus ex machina is a tell-tale sign of sloppy plotting.

Actors are all about entrances, but writers are all about exits.

That's what I love most about writers--they're such lousy actors.

When I'm writing I don't want anyone else in the room - including myself.

Books have a life. They breathe. When you write a book, it grows and changes. You learn from your characters after you create them. They come from you and you become them.

If I don't stay in and write, I feel like a prisoner.

Nouns and verbs are the guts of the language. Beware of covering up with adjectives and adverbs.

If you aren't willing to put your best work out there, write for yourself. Don't ever publish.

One, don’t wait for inspiration, just start the damned thing. Two, once you begin, keep on until the end. How do you know how the story should begin until you find out where it’s going?

Writing is work. It’s also gambling. You don’t get a pension plan. Other people can help you a bit, but ­essentially you’re on your own. ­Nobody is making you do this: you chose it, so don’t whine.

Great content inspires action.

Don't let society's defined genre hold you down, be a free spirit and just write, let society be the one to decide where each piece fits in.

You can edit what you write. Why not edit what you say? If it hurts somebody, you can still offer an apology or withdraw your statements

Writing is sharing. You share what you have. Great writers have more to share

You cannot write if you are not on fire

You cannot write if you are not angry

How do you feel when you read stuff written by dead authors? A visit by a ghost?

Write it as you see in your own perspective, you may be right or wrong but then what, that's how you see it

You never know what you will write until you write it

If you are afraid of the critics you will never write a word

Able writers let us into their minds and show us how they think and by that open our minds to ourselves

People speak even after their death. Only do speak those who have recorded their speech in writing before they die, the rest go silent forever

. If you want to write, just write anything that comes into your mind. You will be surprised at how you can force inspiration to stand on your side.

You say you have nothing to write about? How do you find things to talk about? You can write about those things you like to talk about, that's your area of expertise

A writer is never alone, he is always with himself

We write, not because we claim to know more than others, but perhaps because we want to know more than others. Writers are explorers

The world would have been a better place if some men had just shut their mouths.

Writing is self-pleasure