885 Quotes About Writing-advice

It's okay to write crap. Just don't try publishing it while it's still crap.

Heinlein's Rules for Writers Rule One: You Must WriteRule Two: Finish What Your StartRule Three: You Must Refrain From Rewriting, Except to Editorial OrderRule Four: You Must Put Your Story on the MarketRule Five: You Must Keep it on the Market until it has Sold

People say to write about what you know. I'm here to tell you, no one wants to read that, cos you don't know anything. So write about something you don't know. And don't be scared, ever.

When I am grown up I shall carry a notebook—a fat book with many pages, methodically lettered. I shall enter my phrases.

about clichés. Avoid them like the plague.

If you want to write, you can. Fear stops most people from writing, not lack of talent, whatever that is. Who am I? What right have I to speak? Who will listen to me if I do? You’re a human being, with a unique story to tell, and you have every right. If you speak with passion, many of us will listen. We need stories to live, all of us. We live by story. Yours enlarges the circle.

Don't let yourself slip and get any perfect characters... keep them people, people, people, and don't let them get to be symbols.

Best writing advice ___WRITE. Complete what you're writing. Edit/rewrite if you have a finished piece. No writing tip is going to help if you don't write.

No good story is quite true.