To be a writer, you must write. To be a published writer you must finish what you write and then get what you've written in front of the outside world.
George H. ScithersTags: writing-advice
Get your story written, you always have the second and third draft to fix things like tense, 1st vs 3rd person, the exact right word, etc.
Andromeda EdisonTags: writing writing-advice writing-process
If someone wanted to be a runner, you don't tell them to think about running, you tell them to run. And the same simple idea applies to writing, I hope.
Markus ZusakTags: motivational writing interview writing-advice rule idea the-guardian
Know something about the world, and by this I mean the world outside of books. This might require joining the Marines, or working on an oil rig or as a hash slinger at a truck stop in Kentucky. Know what it smells like out there. If everything you write smells like a library, then your prospective audience will be limited to those who like the smell of libraries.
Douglas WilsonTags: writing-advice
Write because you love it, not because you want to become rich. Your story will be better for it.
Lana AxeTags: writing-advice
Beware of advice—even this.
Carl SandburgTags: inspirational true writing-advice quotes
Hypocrisy is our friend. Power structures have to pretend to hold values in order to win the loyalty of at least some of society. We can use the gap between those professed values and reality to move people to try to change the reality towards the values.
Justin PodurTags: politics writing-advice
If you are serious, and you want to make a living as an author, then you need to hustle. Period. If you can't make that quality, then you need to concentrate on your craft and practice more.
One other thing, quality comes with practice. If you are prolific, then you become a better writer because you are writing. The more you do anything the better at it you will become. So in a way, quantity does add to quality.
Tags: writing writing-craft writing-advice writing-process writing-books
My advice to writers is this:
Walk, talk, breathe, laugh, cry, fall, rise, fail, succeed, run, jump, love, hate, hide, seek, learn, work, play, feel, LIVE.
Then write it down.
Tags: writing-advice live-life writing-from-the-heart advice-for-writers
Concentrate on sharpening your memory and peeling your sensibility. Cut every page you write by at least one third. Stop constructing those piffling little similes of yours. Work out what it is you want to say. Then say it in the most direct and vigorous way you can. Eat meat. Drink blook. Give up your social life and don't think you can have friends. Rise in the quiet hours of the night and prick your fingertips and use the blood for ink; that will cure you of persiflage!
Hilary MantelTags: writing-craft writing-advice writing-life writing-process
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