“I write my books in my head, and not in a specific study with a view. The view is from my inner eyes.” ~ Wilbur Smith
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✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Conflict is a Story’s Starting Place
“The cat sat on the mat is not a story. The cat sat on the other cat’s mat is a story.”
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Losing One’s Self in Writing
“Writing is a good example of self-abandonment. I never completely forget myself except when I am writing and I am never more completely myself than when I am writing.” ~ Flannery O’Connor
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Writing as Therapy
“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
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Ray Bradbury on How to Write a Story
“You don’t pay any attention to anything anyone else says, no opinions. The important thing is to explode with a story, to emotionalize a story, not to think it. You start thinking – the story’s going to die on its feet.” ~ Ray Bradbury
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Writing as a Visual Art
“I’ve always thought of the book as a visual art form, and it should represent a single artistic idea, which it does if you write your own material.”
~ Chris Van Allsburg
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ What Is Your Writing Teaching You?
“I often meet frustrated young writers who say they’ve only got so far and just can’t finish a book. Even if you don’t happen to use what you’ve worked on that day, it has taught you something and you’ll be amazed when you might come back to it and use it again.” ~ Eoin Colfer
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Writing Dialogue
“In dialogue, each speech, even if only a single word, is a paragraph by itself; that is, a new paragraph begins with each change of speaker. The application of this rule, when dialogue and narrative are combined, is best learned from examples in well-printed works of fiction.” ~ William Strunk
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Some Words are Better than Others
“Every writer, by the way he uses the language, reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacities, his bias….Avoid the elaborate, the pretentious, the coy, and the cute. Do not be tempted by a twenty-dollar word when there is a ten-center handy, ready and able.” ~ William Strunk, Jr.
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Three Rules of Writing: Rewrite, Rewrite, Rewrite
“Remember, it is no sign of weakness or defeat that your manuscript ends up in need of major surgery. This is a common occurrence in all writing, and among the best writers.” ~ William Strunk, Jr.
