“I try not to get analytical in the writing process. I try to just kind of keep the flow from my brain to my hand as far as the pen is concerned and go with the moment and go with my guts.” ~ Quentin Tarantino
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✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ A Writer’s Precious Commodity
“Becoming a writer means being creative enough to find the time and the place in your life for writing.”
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ The Starting Place for a Story
“Begin with an individual, and before you know it you find that you have created a type; begin with a type, and you find that you have created – nothing.”
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ What Makes a Good Story?
“What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story.” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ The Cause of Writer’s Block
“It’s not the fear of writing that blocks people, it’s fear of not writing well; something quite different.” ~ Scott Berkun
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ The Relationship Between the Writer and Reader
“In the broadest possible sense, writing well means to communicate clearly and interestingly and in a way that feels alive to the reader. Where there’s some kind of relationship between the writer and the reader – even though it’s mediated by a kind of text – there’s an electricity about it.”
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Rewriting takes Courage
“Rewriting is the essence of writing well: it’s where the game is won or lost. The idea is hard to accept. We all have emotional equity in our first draft; we can’t believe that it wasn’t born perfect. But the odds are close to 100 percent that it wasn’t.”
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Seeing the Story in Dreams
“In the writing process, the more the story cooks, the better. The brain works for you even when you are at rest. I find dreams particularly useful. I myself think a great deal before I go to sleep and the details sometimes unfold in the dream.”
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Interaction of Reading and Writing
“The real importance of reading is that it creates an ease & intimacy with the process of writing… It also offers you a constantly growing knowledge of what has been done and what hasn’t, what is trite and what is fresh, what works and what lies there dying (or dead) on the page. The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.”
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Want to be a Better Writer?
“I’m a better writer now because I’ve worked very hard at getting better. My long-range goal will always be to write better books.”
~ George Pelecanos
