1. Every author ought to write every book as if he were going to be beheaded the day he finished it.
~F. Scott Fitzgerald
2. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.
~Ernest Hemingway
3. Were most of your stars out? Were you busy writing your heart out?
~J.D. Salinger
What is the best writing advice you have ever read or heard?
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ReplyDeleteI think all the great writing advice has one thing in common: write passionately. write in a way honest to you.
ReplyDelete"The writer is the one who stays in the room." ~ Ron Carlson
ReplyDelete"I am entitled to tell this particular story in a way no one else can." ~ Amy Hempel
"Caress the detail, the divine detail." ~ Nabokov
"No one is asking, let alone demanding, that you write. The world is not waiting with bated breath for your article or book. Whether or not you get a single word on paper, the sun will rise, the earth will spin, the universe will expand. Writing is forever and always a choice -- your choice."
ReplyDelete-Beth Mende Conny
Some time back, a group of ragged refugees from one or another of the so-called "writer's communities" online went off to create their own place where the writing was the thing, and making it better was the aim, as opposed to the places where ego is the thing, and patting it is the aim.
ReplyDeleteOne of those people, and I've long since forgotten who, used the following as a tag line in her comments, and I stole it from her. She's welcome to claim ownership, and I'll salute her.
Best writing advice ever:
"Read. Write. Repeat."
The role of the writer is not to say what we can all say but what we are unable to say.” Anaïs Nin
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"The road to Hell is paved with adverbs."
ReplyDelete--Stephen King
“Writing is easy. You only need to stare at a piece of blank paper until your forehead bleeds” -Douglas Adams
ReplyDeleteThis has really helped me a lot. God knows I've spent hours staring at a blank computer screen, waiting for a wave of inspiration, but once it hit I'd ride it like it was the only wave there'd ever be.