885 Quotes About Writing-advice

If you haven’t written along the way, the brain is indeed the only place to turn to.

Ernest Hemingway once advised prose artists to 'Write hard and clear about what hurts.

Avon brightened. 'My plan has always been to write.''Exactly,' said Edward. 'Write first. You can always figure out what you've written later.

Don’t go into great detail describing places and things… You don’t want descriptions that bring the action, the flow of the story, to a standstill.

All the information you need can be given in dialogue.

Isn't a blank verse paragraph just a chunk of prose bent around corners after every five beats? Try doing that and you'll not only get lines that don't scan, you'll also get, and all too often, the one effect that you definitely don't want: successive lines that rhyme.

Avon brightened. "My plan has always been to write.""Exactly," said Edward. "Write first. You can always figure out what you've written later.

One learns by thinking about writing, and by talkingabout writing-but primarily through writing.

These days many poets live in cities, or at least insuburbs, and the natural world grows ever more distant from our everyday lives. Most people, in fact, live in cities, and therefore most readers are not necessarily very familiar with the natural world. And yet the natural world has always been the great warehouse of symbolic imagery. Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began, as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth.