If something inside of you is real, we will probably find it interesting, and it will probably be universal. So you must risk placing real emotion at the center of your work. Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write toward vulnerability. Risk being unliked. Tell the truth as you understand it. If you’re a writer you have a moral obligation to do this. And it is a revolutionary act—truth is always subversive.
Anne LamottTags: writing writing-advice writing-life
Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut. The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error. The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.
William FaulknerTags: writing writing-advice
A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.
Edgar Allan PoeTags: writing-advice grammar
But let the wise be warned against too great readiness at explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure to go wrong.
George EliotTags: writing-advice be-terse
Prose is architecture, not interior decoration.
Ernest HemingwayTags: writing-advice
Let grammar, punctuation, and spelling into your life! Even the most energetic and wonderful mess has to be turned into sentences.
Terry PratchettTags: writing-advice
Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report written on birds that he'd had three months to write, which was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books about birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him put his arm around my brother's shoulder, and said, "Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.
Anne LamottTags: school writing time childhood encouragement writing-advice time-management project homework project-management bird-by-bird breaking-down-assignment
On the whole, I think you should write biographies of those you admire and respect, and novels about human beings who you think are sadly mistaken.
Penelope FitzgeraldTags: writing writing-craft writing-humor writing-advice
it's been my experience that most writers don't talk about their craft--they just do it
Alfred LansingTags: writing writing-humor writing-advice writing-life
I have a great many opinions about writing, but I'm afraid that all of them are unprintable
Alfred LansingTags: writing writing-humor writing-advice writing-life
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