885 Quotes About Writing-advice

I've been rejected a hundred times. It just takes that one person who totally believes in you!

Writer's Block: making authors miserable since the Stone Age.

How to write a book? Start writing,continue writing and finish writing.

[Speaking about writing her first novel] You have to be passionate enough about it and I was.

Graft at your craft!

... писать нужно о любви и только о любви! Потому что это самое главное! Ведь когда мы рождаемся, мы сразу начинаем орать и требовать, чтобы нас любили, носили на руках! И потом, в школе мы стараемся получать пятерки, чтобы нас любили мама и папа. И взрослыми мы делаем открытия, пишем музыку и грабим банки, летаем в космос и затеваем войны, совершаем подвиги и интригуем – зачем? Чтобы нас любили…

Writing is like knitting. Stitch after stitch, word by word, and before you know it you have a book ... or a jumper!

Any advice for how to be a successful author?""Yes. Don't be a woman. And be dead. And do both at the same time, if you can.

writing - like any art - is so damned personal that there really isn't a right way to do it. You do what works for you; what matters is getting the words on the paper. Sure, if you hear advice, and it works, then excellent. But, if it doesn't, you have to realize that perhaps nothing is wrong with you. You don't jive with the advice.