1,068 Quotes About Writers-on-writing

Yet every writer worth a good-god damn knows this too, for it is graven into each of us: no one cares for beauty. Not in fiction. Not on its own, not pure, untroubled beauty; not in fiction. [...] For here is the only real difference between the life of reality and the life of fiction. Fiction only works when the beauty is tainted by pain. For fiction is not about life; it's about the troubles of life.

La experiencia nos enseña a los escritores lo duro que es seguir siendo escritor.

An expedition searching for personal transformation commences with the first stroke of the pen, and continues thereafter one incisive word at a time.

The more that I write the more vivid is my personal history of conducting a lonely battle with a demented self. The act of writing ramifies in my mind each episode in life that subtly altered my native composition. Writing my history in a narrative format allows me to perceive my extant life as a whole rather than as intervallic and disconnected happenings. Writing a chronological and episodic personal history enabled me to identify the thematic content of my unified personal story.

All writers trammeling the ground of self-examining must explore their physical and mental constrictions and determine what awaits them, if anything at all, after the cinereous body returns to dust. Writing does not demand that one prefer death to life, but any writer seeking enlightenment might elect to assess the possibility of death releasing them from the conscripts of crippling dissatisfaction with their present way of living.

An infusion of storytelling lifeblood of into the vein of time provides a means to stitch a common thread of conjoined understanding through the collective consciousness of our generation. The communal sheaves of internal dialogue handed-down through the ages trace a seamless patchwork of wisdom, weaving the broadcloth of perception with strands of evocative fabric gleaned from examining the textile breach of humankind’s fitful existence.

Where to begin? Write, throw away the first ten or so pages of story, that primed the pump. Use your expository intro as story outline and put in the back or trash. If you can’t answer whether it’s plot or characters which form the story. Stop. Learn that LY is hideous and the bastion of the weak. It’s okay to lift bits and ideas from your reading. Wait until you’ve forgotten the source and you won’t be stalled by fear of derivative. Write your darlings, kill them later

I always encourage a writer to learn the craft by writing a genre romance - and that means a Harlequin/M&B style one. And why not? You have the highest chance of being published in this genre, it’s fun, it's a challenge and it’s shorter than many other books. It sure worked for EL James. But does that mean it is easy? Not a chance! It will put to the test all your storytelling skills. That’s why it is such a great place to start your career.

Screw the false notion of "politically correct".No matter what race, nationality, creed or color you are. If you are a real writer then you are writing in the real world. Write about it and stand up for yourself as well as other writers.