Write with abandon and no constraints for first draft. Cut brutally and save in separate files on second draft. Add conflict; don't be afraid to make your characters suffer. Read what you love. Write what you love. Love. Francesca Lia Block
Writers divide into those who write biting their nails and those who don't. Some writers write licking their finger. Italo Calvino
Writers divide into those who write biting their nails and those who don't. Some writers write licking their finger. Italo Calvino
Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up. Ernest Hemingway
Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation. Graham Greene
Writing is literally transformative. When we read, we are changed. When we write, we are changed. It's neurological. To me, this is a kind of magic. Francesca Lia Block
Writing is one of the few activities where quantity will inevitably make quality. The more you write, the better you're going to get at it. Harlan Coben
Writing is work. It takes a lot of contemplation, concentration, and out-and-out sweat. People tend to romanticize it, that somehow your work appears by benefit of some mystical external force. In reality, to be a writer, you have to sit down and write. It's work, and often it's hard work. Wendelin Van Draanen
Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. Paul Auster
You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream. Frank Zappa
You do it a day at a time. You write as well as you can, you put it in the mail, you leave it under submission, you never leave it at home. James Lee Burke
You learn to write by reading, and my experiences and tastes as a reader are pretty wide. Justin Cronin
Zombie books were going to be my passion projects, but certainly not pay the bills. I thought I was going to have to get a real job on a sitcom or something, and have my zombie books to remind myself I was still a writer at heart. I never thought I could actually pay my bills and write what I wanted. Max Brooks