Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window. ~ William Faulkner
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🖋 Writers’ Wisdom ~ If . . .
“If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write.” ~ W. Somerset Maugham
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Authenticity
baraClose the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It’s the one and only thing you have to offer. ~ Barbara Kingsolver
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Believe in Yourself
“It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.” Ernest Hemingway
🖋 Writers’ Wisdom ~ Words Flow From the Heart
Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart. ~ William Wadsworth
🖋 Writers’ Wisdom ~ A Writer’s Role
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say. ~ Anais Nin
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Read, Read, and Read Some More
There’s always time to read. Don’t trust a writer who doesn’t read. It’s like eating food prepared by a cook who doesn’t eat. ~ Laura Lippman
Writers’ Wisdom: 3 Pieces of Advice for Writers
“I have advice for people who want to write. I don’t care whether they’re 5 or 500. There are three things that are important: First, if you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you. Where you just put down what you think about life, what you think about things, what you think is fair and what you think is unfair. And second, you need to read. You can’t be a writer if you’re not a reader. It’s the great writers who teach us how to write. The third thing is to write. Just write a little bit every day. Even if it’s for only half an hour — write, write, write.” ` Madeleine L’Engle
Stress Hack: Read
Feeling stressed? Read. Getting lost in a book can lower levels of cortisol, or other unhealthy stress hormones, by 67 percent.
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Writer’s Wisdom: Read, Read, Read
“I am always chilled and astonished by the would-be writers who ask me for advice and admit, quite blithely, that they “don’t have time to read.” This is like a guy starting up Mount Everest saying that he didn’t have time to buy any rope or pitons.” ~ Stephen King
