885 Quotes About Writing-advice

Stories aren't made of language: they're made of something else. A little earlier I said that stories were about life; perhaps they're made of life.

Reading your work out loud to yourself it's good. It helps even more if you read to people. If they start yawning that is a bad sign. Unless you are writing for children. Then your story is not bad, if you just wrote a bedtime story!

Not that length and weight alone indicate excellence; many epic tales are pretty much epic crap.

Hit the heart as much or more than the head.

The meaning of your work can’t be summed up by an engagement button on social media.

Never doubt the genius in your ideas. As soon as a dope thought comes to you, WRITE IT DOWN! Pick up your pen and bring your stroke of genius to life.

We all obsess over our novel’s first lines, and rightly so because from it the rest of the story must flow naturally and without pause.

Dreams are there for those who dare to dream them.

A love of writing is far greater than any word count.