885 Quotes About Writing-advice

Talent is cheap. What matters is discipline.

I do a lot of rewriting. It’s very painful.

[G]ive nothing centrality, because writing is about continually shifting weight from one thing and moment to the other.

You can only write regularly if you’re willing to write badly… Accept bad writing as a way of priming the pump, a warm-up exercise that allows you to write well.

I hate dialect. It gets in the way. If there is a need for dialect, you can render it quite easily by reproducing the rythm of that form of speech. Then you don't need to bother with silly spellings

Write at the edges of the day.

What is writing but an expression of my own life?

Storytelling is in our DNA. It's what differentiates humans from other species: we don't just communicate information. We tell stories.

It is only when you open your veins and bleed onto the page a little that you establish contact with your reader. If you do not believe in the characters or the story you are doing at that moment with all your mind, strength, and will, if you don't feel joy and excitement while writing it, then you're wasting good white paper, even if it sells, because there are other ways in which a writer can bring in the rent money besides writing bad or phony stories.