885 Quotes About Writing-advice

When you’re speaking in the truest, most intimate voice about your life, you are speaking with the universal voice.

Audiences will admire your character’s strength but connect with them through their weakness.

Start telling the stories that only you can tell, because there’ll always be better writers than you and there’ll always be smarter writers than you. There will always be people who are much better at doing this or doing that – but you are the only you.

Giving a reader a sex scene that is only half right is like giving her half a kitten. It is not half as cute as a whole kitten; it is a bloody, godawful mess. A half-good sex scene is not half as hot; it actually moves into the negative numbers, draining any heat from the surrounding material.

There is nothing more valuable in the writing process than a friend to hold you accountable to your own potential.

Write as though your life depended on it.

Stop calling yourself an authoress. You sound like an idiotess.

The best writing is when one writes from the soul

Anything ever written needs a disclaimer.