“With most of my books, I’ll actually go out and look at the setting. If you describe things carefully, it kind of makes the scene pop.”
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✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Trust Your Gut
“Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ You Know What You Want to Write
“Don’t ever write anything you don’t like yourself and if you do like it, don’t take anyone’s advice about changing it. They just don’t know.”
~ Raymond Chandler
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ How Deep Is Your Desire to Write?
“Cats gotta scratch. Dogs gotta bite. I gotta write.”
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Make the Reader Want More
“Usually, when people get to the end of a chapter, they close the book and go to sleep. I deliberately write a book so when the reader gets to the end of the chapter, he or she must turn one more page.”
~ Sidney Sheldon
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Don’t Let Go!
“Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion… the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.”
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Jump Into the Scene You’re Writing
“Being a fiction writer is really like being an actor, because if you’re going to write convincingly it has to sound right and play right. The only way that works is to emotionally and technically act out and see the scene you’re in.”
~ Ridley Pearson
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ What If Your Story Sounds Like Writing?
“If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it. Or, if proper usage gets in the way, it may have to go. I can’t allow what we learned in English composition to disrupt the sound and rhythm of the narrative.”
~ Elmore Leonard
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Great Characters
“All the great writers root their characters in true human behavior.”
~ Ben Kingsley
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Keep on Writing
“I’ve written about 2,000 short stories; I’ve only published 300 and I feel I’m still learning. Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he’ll eventually make some kind of career for himself as a writer. ” ~ Ray Bradbury
