“It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.” ~
fiction writing tips
🖋 Writers’ Wisdom: Know Whom To Please
“I know, not everyone will like what I write, but writing is not about trying to please everybody.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri
Writers’ Wisdom: Don’t Wait for Inspiration to Knock
“A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper.” ~ E.B. White
Writers’ Wisdom: A Writer’s Privilege
“It is the writer’s privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart.”~ William Faulkner
Writers’ Wisdom: Want to Know What to Write?
“Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.” ~ Natalie Goldberg
Writers’ Wisdom
Don’t write your books for people who won’t like them. Give yourself wholly to the kind of book you want to write and don’t try to please readers who like something different. Otherwise, you’ll end up with the worst of both worlds. ~ Paul Harding
Writers Wisdom: Stephen King on Succeeding as a Writer
“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. If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered, anyway.” ~ Stephen King
Writers wisdom
“No one says a novel has to be one thing. It can be anything it wants to be, a vaudeville show, the six o’clock news, the mumblings of wild men saddled by demons.” ~ Ishmael Reed
Writers Wisdom: You Don’t Have to be Perfect
Give yourself permission to be terrible. There’s nothing more paralyzing than trying to write a perfect novel in one draft. Do your best to turn off your inner editor and just write. Everything can be fixed later! ~ Sarah Rubin
Writers Wisdom: Jorge Luis Borges on Experience
“I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.” ~ Jorge Luis Borges
