Quotes and sayings about tag  writing

Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.

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The road to hell is paved with adverbs.

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Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.

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A short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.

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You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.

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If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.

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In many cases when a reader puts a story aside because it 'got boring,' the boredom arose because the writer grew enchanted with his powers of description and lost sight of his priority, which is to keep the ball rolling.

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Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.

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The scariest moment is always just before you start.

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If you're just starting out as a writer, you could do worse than strip your television's electric plug-wire, wrap a spike around it, and then stick it back into the wall. See what blows, and how far. Just an idea.

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Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings.

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Reading at meals is considered rude in polite society, but if you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects.

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If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.

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Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up.

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Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.

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