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Some writers just write about their own lives. Well, I don't want to do that. I want to have a really boring life. A quiet, boring life so no one wants to write a biography. I'm the only writer in history only to have one wife, for instance.Collection: Writing
My advice to would-be young authors is to read a lot, write a lot, and not worry about creating a finished product. Keeping a journal is not a bad idea either.Collection: Writing
Sometimes, as much as writing saves one’s own life, you cannot imagine how it will save another’s. This is another reason why it is important to do the work, over and over again. It is food, the kind a soul needs.Collection: Writing
Instead of announcing what you are about to tell is interesting, make it so.Collection: Writing
Rewrite and revise. Do not be afraid to seize what you have and cut it to ribbons ... Good writing means good revising.Collection: Writing
The surest way to arouse and hold the attention of the reader is by being specific, definitive, and concrete. The greatest writers - Homer, Dante, Shakespeare - are effective largely because they deal in particulars and report the details that matter. Their words call up pictures.Collection: Writing
Remember, it is no sign of weakness or defeat that your manuscript ends up in need of major surgery. This is a common occurrence in all writing, and among the best writers.Collection: Writing
Well, when I am fifty-three or so I would like to write a novel as good as Persuasion but with a modern setting, of course. For the next thirty years or so I shall be collecting material for it. If anyone asks me what I work at, I shall say, 'Collecting material'. No one can object to that.Collection: Writing
In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.Collection: Writing
Once we choose hope, everything is possible.Collection: Writing
The apostolic writings are of three kinds: historical, didactic, and prophetic.Collection: Writing
A day of bad writing is always better than a day of no writing.Collection: Writing
A writer always writes.Collection: Writing
There is no right or wrong way to write a novel. Each journey is different for every individual work and for every writer. The first error is never to begin; the second is never to finish.Collection: Writing
Always mystify, torture, mislead, and surprise the audience as much as possible.Collection: Writing
Write about the thing that scares you most or your most private confession and you'll never have a problem coming up with decent fiction.Collection: Writing
Writing a story, regardless of length, begins always with a single word.Collection: Writing
A migraine is the cockblock of writing.Collection: Writing
I always say I write because I have lots of questions, not because I have any answers.Collection: Writing
I think it's important to remember that writing is a gift and our stories are gifts to ourselves and to the world and sometimes giving isn't always the easiest thing to do but it comes back.Collection: Writing
Writing must always have intention because words have power.Collection: Writing
It seems a pity, but I do not think that I can write more. For God's sake look after our people.Collection: Writing
Antiques to Die For sets the gold standard for the classic contemporary cozy. Agatha-finalist Jane K. Cleland's writing is top-notch; her plotting and pace smooth and assured. This antiquing series is in mint condition!Collection: Writing
The process of writing a novel is like taking a journey by boat. You have to continually set yourself on course. If you get distracted or allow yourself to drift, you will never make it to the destination. It's not like highly defined train tracks or a highway; this is a path that you are creating discovering. The journey is your narrative. Keep to it and there will be a tale told.Collection: Writing
The first thing you have to know about writing is that it is something you must do everyday. There are two reasons for this rule: Getting the work done and connecting with your unconscious mind.Collection: Writing
I'm writing, I'm using language, I'm using that language to tell stories and even more so to get ideas across. And I just love that, and I've always loved that.Collection: Writing
Write down everything you want to do with your life and then spend the next 25 years doing them.Collection: Writing
Writings like gambling. Unpredictable and sporadic successes make you more addicted, not less.Collection: Writing
I did write some code in Java once, but that was the island in Indonesia.Collection: Writing
The good part of writing is where it gets out of your control and turns into something else. You look at it and think "Whoa, where did that come from? That wasn't what I meant to write, but it's more interesting than what I was intending. Which part of my subconscious or my experience did that come from?" Often the answer isn't clear, and often the line between fiction and fact isn't clear, either.Collection: Writing
He never ever learned to read or write so well, but he could play his guitar like he was ringing a bell.Collection: Writing
All writers are thieves; theft is a necessary tool of the trade.Collection: Writing
A writer's work may be a coded autobiography, but only a very close friend could decipher it.Collection: Writing
If I didn't know the ending of a story, I wouldn't begin. I always write my last lines, my last paragraph first, and then I go back and work towards it. I know where I'm going. I know what my goal is. And how I get there is God's grace.Collection: Writing
There was a time when I thought I turned terrible things over in my mind because I read and wrote too many scary stories. (Note self: start writing about unicorns and bunnies)Collection: Writing
If creative work protects a man against mental illness, it is small wonder that he pursues it with avidity; and even if the state of mind he is seeking to avoid is no more than a mild state of depression or apathy, this still constitutes a cogent reason for engaging in creative work even when it brings no obvious external benefit in its train.Collection: Writing
I only write about stuff that’s happened to me.. stuff I can’t get past personally. Luckily, I'm quite self-destructive.Collection: Writing
It’s not the writing part that’s hard. What’s hard is sitting down to write.Collection: Writing
Maybe one thing is that you have to find the best way to write whatever works better for you.Collection: Writing
I think the complaint that I hear most often from kids, even kids who like to write is that don't know what to write about. A journal is a great source of story starters.Collection: Writing
If you're very serious about writing it's helpful to find an agent. It's becoming more and more competitive to have your manuscript even looked at by an editor. Many companies don't accept unsolicited manuscripts anymore, so they'll pay more attention to something that comes in through an agent.Collection: Writing
I dont have a style. I just try to write what the story demands.Collection: Writing
It's true that writing can give new forms to concepts that existed previously with far less clarity, but in terms of the other half of a story's story - the way a story is received and interpreted and used - the audience plays a part in that too.Collection: Writing
Never write when you can talk. Never talk when you can nod. And never put anything in an e-mail.Collection: Writing
I set out to write a screenplay but, since my early 20s, had dreamed of writing a novel.Collection: Writing
I'm under strict instructions to write a happy ending. Rule number ninety-seven: You're not allowed to make a dragon cry." "Right," Said Sophie, starting the engine. "Tears might quench their fire.Collection: Writing
A letter is never ill-timed; it never interrupts. Instead it waits for us to find the opportune minute, the quiet moment to savor the message. There is an element of timelessness about letter writing.Collection: Writing
I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word [...] - a jouuuuuurney.Collection: Writing
I think all writing is a disease. You can't stop it.Collection: Writing