Don't say it was delightful; make us say delightful when we've read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers Please will you do the job for me.
C.S. LewisTags: words writing-advice
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.
Woody AllenTags: humor writing-advice irony interrogation-marks writing-tips
Write what should not be forgotten.
Isabel AllendeTags: writing on-writing writing-advice forgotten
Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.
Harper LeeTags: writing-advice
All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.
Ernest HemingwayTags: truth writing writing-advice
Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious. When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring about the truth, you have the ability to throw the lights on for your reader. He or she will recognize his or her life and truth in what you say, in the pictures you have painted, and this decreases the terrible sense of isolation that we have all had too much of.
Anne LamottTags: writing writers writing-advice
As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.
Ernest HemingwayTags: writers writing-advice
Write without pay until somebody offers to pay.
Mark TwainTags: on-writing writing-advice
I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer that is as I say demon-driven and wants to learn and has got to write, he don't know why, he will learn from almost any source that he finds. He will learn from older people who are not writers, he will learn from writers, but he learns it -- you can't teach it.
William FaulknerTags: writers on-writing writing-advice
Don't get it right, get it written.
Ally CarterTags: writing-advice
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