Quotes about writing-tips

Actors are all about entrances, but writers are all about exits.

That's what I love most about writers--they're such lousy actors.

Rules such as "Write what you know," and "Show, don't tell," while doubtlessly grounded in good sense, can be ignored with impunity by any novelist nimble enough to get away with it. There is, in fact, only one rule in writing fiction: Whatever works, works.

Fiction though it is a fiction, should be written in a way that it feels like a reality, a reality every reader willingly or sometimes unwillingly goes through, until the reader finishes reading and sometimes even after that.

Doing nothing can be as rewarding as doing something. And doing very little can be as productive, in a creative sense, as doing a lot.

When I'm writing I don't want anyone else in the room - including myself.

The skill of writing needs much patience, practicing, and time. There is no good writing from a quick effort, or a confused writer.

Writing as a creative art flourishes only when there are no rules. Rules stifle you from entering the silent and forbidden spaces where the core of the story is waiting to be revealed.

The beginning of every writing session is like setting down a road unknown.

Introduction of deus ex machina is a tell-tale sign of sloppy plotting.

Here's one prophecy the writer can make - you'll never be rich and you'll probably be poor.

Someone asked me, 'How do you write a book?' I said, 'I live with a pen in one hand.

Writing is like a religion to those who don't practise, an act of faith for those who do.

If I don't stay in and write, I feel like a prisoner.

My best writing happens when I’m fighting to produce it.

Books have a life. They breathe. When you write a book, it grows and changes. You learn from your characters after you create them. They come from you and you become them.

Maugham then offers the greatest advice anyone could give to a young author: "At the end of an interrogation sentence, place a question mark. You'd be surprised how effective it can be.

We need to boost each other to get to the top. It is much more effective than stepping on each other.

Nouns and verbs are the guts of the language. Beware of covering up with adjectives and adverbs.

Make your heroes ambitious, always looking for more success and uniqueness.To write the best story you can, think of making your hero, or heroes, have an ambitious for an unlimited success.-How to write the best story-

Deal with your readers that theyare smart, and write a language thatsuits their intelligence.- How to write the best story-

Choose noble goals for your heroes.Make them Sympathize with the poor, collaborates on the good goals, always step forward for the good actions, the first ones to do the right things, care to reserve others rights, and respect the laws, traditions and values.

Tighten your prose so the story flows.

If you aren't willing to put your best work out there, write for yourself. Don't ever publish.

You can swap the message around, and whatever the particular norm is, or whatever the particular message is, when you put your pet-peeve message before story, odds are you are going to bore the shit out of your reader.

Great content inspires action.

My job as a writer is simple.Write a book I’m proud of,and present it as a gift to the world.Some will love it.Some will hate it.That’s the nature of art.

Subtlety is the mark of confidence and is thus by far the hardest thing for a writer to achieve.

Writing is work. It’s also gambling. You don’t get a pension plan. Other people can help you a bit, but ­essentially you’re on your own. ­Nobody is making you do this: you chose it, so don’t whine.

Your experiences are the foundation for your story your imagination takes it from there.

Style and voice are different. Style is standard conventions of writing; voice is the distinct way an individual puts words together. All good writers have a near-uniform understanding of style, but a voice all their own.

After writing, there is the letting go part. Perfection is a myth; as we all get better by day.Allow yourself to grow in active practice, release that book to the world, and do better with the next one.

Don't let society's defined genre hold you down, be a free spirit and just write, let society be the one to decide where each piece fits in.

The biggest thing for aspiring writers I would say is that writing is hard work. You can’t sustain the fantasy that it should somehow be otherwise for you because you are more special or more committed than other aspiring writers. You aren’t sitting down to be entertained by the gods or to entertain yourself. At times it can be a thrill and it feels more like play, but we are easily deceived by whatever pleasures or rewards writing can offer. Exhilarating work is still work. Is it work, or is it

Yeah, episodic doesn't work. Your coolest character needs something big and meaningful to do. Otherwise, well, it's just narrative shit.

Plot comes from the mind but the characters come from the heart!