[T]he young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat.
He must learn them again. He must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself that, forget it forever, leaving no room in his workshop for anything but the old verities and truths of the heart, the old universal truths lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomed - love and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice. Until he does so, he labors under a curse. He writes not of love but of lust, of defeats in which nobody loses anything of value, of victories without hope and, worst of all, without pity or compassion. His griefs grieve on no universal bones, leaving no scars. He writes not of the heart but of the glands.
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Start telling the stories that only you can tell. Because there will always be better writers than you, and there will always be smarter writers than you, and there will always be, you know, people who are much better at doing this or doing that, but you are the only you.
Neil GaimanTags: writing storytelling authors
There are only two ways, really, to become a writer. One is to write. The other is to read.
Anna QuindlenWhat makes a writer successful is not money or fame (though both are nice) ... it's that in being true to her or himself, the words were able to connect to a reader's heart.
Miyoko HikijiTags: writing writing-craft
The art of writing is not as solitary as one might think. When it finally dawns on us one day that our task as writers is to share what we know of the human spirit, we suddenly discover that we were never truly alone.
Hal Zina BennettTags: writing creativity writing-process solitary human-spirit
Always remember that writing is an alliance between author and reader. With every line we put down on the page, we need to leave room for the reader's imagination and intellect.
Hal Zina BennettTags: writing writing-craft writing-process
Writing is saying to no one and to everyone the things it is not possible to say to someone.
Rebecca SolnitTags: writing storytelling connection readers
Writing, then, was a substitute for myself: if you don't love me, love my writing
Sylvia PlathTags: experience poetry writing poet writer sylvia-plath poems journals plath
I think if you feel like you were born to write, then you probably were.
Lena DunhamTags: writing
A childhood filled with adventures, happiness and unabated love.
If only I could remember ...
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