An author needs a lot more than one person to succumb to his literary seductive charms, but, like Saul, he must realize that he doesn't have to--and indeed cannot--capture the hearts of every possible reader out there. No matter who the writer, his ideal intended audience is only a small faction of all the living readers. Name the most widely read authors you can think of--from Shakespeare, Austen, and Dickens to Robert Waller, Stephen King, and J.K. Rowling--and the immense majority of book-buyers out there actively decline to read them.
Thomas McCormackTags: writing writing-craft writing-advice
Coincidences to get characters into trouble are great; coincidences to get them out of it are cheating.
Pixar's 22 Rules of StorytellingTags: writing-advice
Biographies are best when written chronologically. Boring people don't make for good biographies.
Deana J. DriverTags: writing writing-advice writers-on-writing biographies non-fiction-books non-fiction-books-inspirational
Let your characters lead when you're dancing together.
Caron Kamps WiddenTags: writing writing-craft writing-advice writing-life writing-process
Let us not neglect the forbidden. Let us not sophisticate ourselves out of the cheap thrill and chill of it: the story told for perversity's sake, and all the better for that; the image created because an artist gets tired of reasons sometimes, and wants to dredge up some picture he's been haunted by, and parade it like a new tattoo. I go with it, readily.
Clive BarkerTags: writing-craft writing-advice perversity
Maybe those sailors will write bad poems, but the same men would have kept dull diaries, too. The problem has to do not with the evidence but with the witness. The point is not the adventure but the adventurer. Reality cannot be directly rendered. Reality is a pile of bricks that can assume many forms.
Antoine de Saint-ExupéryTags: writing writing-advice
The beauty of Goodreads is that you know you’re sowing in a field where everyone, by definition and self-selection, loves to read.
Guy KawasakiTags: reading writing writing-advice
Do you know what the difference is between PR and advertising? Advertising is when you say how great you are. PR is when other people say how great you are. PR is better.
Guy KawasakiTags: advertising writing-advice pr
Good writing just isn't that common.
Eric FlintTags: writing writing-craft writing-advice
It is only when you open your veins and bleed onto the page a little that you establish contact with your reader. If you do not believe in the characters or the story you are doing at that moment with all your mind, strength, and will, if you don't feel joy and excitement while writing it, then you're wasting good white paper, even if it sells, because there are other ways in which a writer can bring in the rent money besides writing bad or phony stories.
Paul GallicoTags: writing-advice writers-life
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