If you have a story that seems worth telling, and you think you can tell it worthily, then the thing for you to do is to tell it, regardless of whether it has to do with sex, sailors or mounted policemen.
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✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Advice on What to Write
“Write what you need to write, not what is currently popular or what you think will sell.”
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ The Anatomy of a Story
“There’s the story, then there’s the real story, then there’s the story of how the story came to be told. Then there’s what you leave out of the story. Which is part of the story too.”
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ The Duty of the Novelist
“The first duty of the novelist is to entertain. It is a moral duty. People who read your books are sick, sad, traveling, in the hospital waiting room while someone is dying. Books are written by the alone for the alone.”
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ On Character Development
“I sometimes use some personality traits to fashion part of a character. Most of my characters are composites of either people I know or people in the public eye.”
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Gaining Writing Perspective
“This fact was something I also learned from this first novel that I needed personal experience to invent, to fantasize, to create fiction, but at the same time I needed some distance, some perspective on this experience in order to feel free enough to manipulate it and to transform it into fiction. If the experience is very close, I feel inhibited. I have never been able to write fiction about something that has happened to me recently. If the closeness of the real reality, of living reality, is to have a persuasive effect on my imagination, I need a distance, a distance in time and in space.”
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ It All Comes Back to the Plot
“There are thirty-two ways to write a story, and I’ve used every one, but there is only one plot – things are not as they seem.” ~ Jim Thompson
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ The Art of Writing
“We writers, as we work our way deeper into our craft, learn to drop more and more personal clues. Like burglars who secretly wish to be caught, we leave our fingerprints on broken locks, our voiceprints in bugged rooms, our footprints in the wet concrete.”
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Why Write?
“I’m a writer, and everything I write is both a confession and a struggle to understand things about myself and this world in which I live. This is what everyone’s work should be-whether you dance or paint or sing. It is a confession, a baring of your soul, your faults, those things you simply cannot or will not understand or accept. You stumble forward, confused, and you share. If you’re lucky, you learn something.”
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ A Way to Look at Writing
“Writing is a job, a talent, but it’s also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon.”
