885 Quotes About Writing-advice

Remember: when people tell you something's wrong or doesn't work, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what's wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong.

Language does not always have to wear a tie and lace-up shoes. The object of fiction isn't grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story … to make him/her forget, whenever possible, that he/she is reading a story at all.

I have a great many opinions about writing, but I'm afraid that all of them are unprintable

I never presume to give advice on writing. I think the best way to learn to write is to read booksand stories by bood writers. It's a hard thing to preach about. As Thelonious Monk once said abouthis field, "Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.

Life is not a submarine.

Get down, get naked, get savage.

. . . But then you will want to put that {publication} behind you right away. You will want to recover the obscurity you swim best through. You've got eternal youth there. You'll never be satisfied. If you get lucky, it will be a darkness so pure it will mirror not the 'self,' but the mysterious 'other.

la palabra hablada y la palabra escrita, como todo lo que produce el ingenio humano, consiste en algo que se puede hacer bien o se puede hacer mal, y para eso está el arte de hacerlas bien

Words become trapped in your mind if you don’t free them. Write them down, speak them, share