Jesus--if Kilgore Trout could only write!" Rosewater exclaimed. He had a point: Kilgore Trout's unpopularity was deserved. His prose was frightful. Only his ideas were good.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Tag: writing-craft ideas thought-experiments
I had declared in public my desire to be a writer ... I wanted to develop a curiosity that was oceanic and insatiable as well as a desire to learn and use every word in the English language that didn't sound pretentious or ditzy.
Pat ConroyTag: writing-craft
Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation.
Ray BradburyTag: writing writing-craft writing-life
I came on the old and best ways of writing through ignorance and experiment and was startled when truths leaped out of brushes like quail before gunshot.
Ray BradburyTag: writing writing-craft
Readers have a loyalty that cannot be matched anywhere else in the creative arts, which explains why so many writers who have run out of gas can keep coasting anyway, propelled on to the bestseller lists by the magic words AUTHOR OF on the covers of their books.
Stephen KingTag: writing-craft publishing
Don't tell me the moon is shining, show me the glint of light on broken glass.
Bernard CornwellTag: writing on-writing writing-craft readers-and-writers
In fact, one could argue that the skill of the fiction writer boils down to the ability to exploit intensity.
James Scott BellTag: writing writing-craft
Begin your writing, fiction or article, where the action begins. This action can be internal (e.g., an important insight or personal decision) or external (e.g., a murder or calamity). Begin too early, you lose your reader. Begin too late, you lose your story.
Walt ShielTag: writing-craft
Five common traits of good writers: (1) They have something to say. (2) They read widely and have done so since childhood. (3) They possess what Isaac Asimov calls a "capacity for clear thought," able to go from point to point in an orderly sequence, an A to Z approach. (4) They're geniuses at putting their emotions into words. (5) They possess an insatiable curiosity, constantly asking Why and How.
James J. KilpatrickTag: writing writing-craft writers-on-writing
I just write whenever I can.
Elmer KeltonTag: writing writing-craft
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