“It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.” Ernest Hemingway
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🖋 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 ~ Let Perfection Go
If I waited for perfection… I would never write a word. ~ Margaret Atwood
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Make Time
You don’t find time to write. You make time. It’s my job. ~ Nora Roberts
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Writer’s Block?
Writer’s block? I’ve never heard of a plumber complain about plumber’s block. ~ Robert B. Parker
🖋 Writers’ Wisdom ~ 1st Page & Last Page
Nobody reads a mystery to get to the middle. They read it to get to the end. If it’s a letdown, they won’t buy anymore. The first page sells that book. The last page sells your next book. ~ Mickey Spillane
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Find Your Voice
In life, finding a voice is speaking and living the truth. Each of you is an original. Each of you has a distinctive voice. When you find it, your story will be told. You will be heard. ~ John Grisham
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ What Book Influenced You?
“The book I always say that influenced me, subconsciously, because at the time I didn’t know I wanted to be a writer, was William Goldman’s ‘Marathon Man.’ That was the first adult thriller that I loved. I read it when I was 15 or so, when my father gave it to me.” ~ Harlan Corbin
