885 Quotes About Writing-advice

The only prophecy the artist can make with confidence is that he and his message will be misunderstood by a world that values all the wrong things.

Think of getting a rejection slip like being turned down for a date; they probably weren’t your type anyway.

Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.

Don't get it right, get it written.

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration.

Let grammar, punctuation, and spelling into your life! Even the most energetic and wonderful mess has to be turned into sentences.

It's a great lesson about not being too precious about your writing. You have to try your hardest to be at the top of your game and improve every joke you can until the last possible second, and then you have to let it go. You can't be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it...You have to let people see what you wrote.

Tell your story. Don't try and tell the stories that other people can tell. Any starting writer starts out with other people's voices. But as quickly as you can 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, but you are the only you.

When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.