“Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day.” ~ Orson Scott Card
Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
~ Anton Chekov
Exercise the writing muscle every day, even if it is only a letter, notes, a title list, a character sketch, a journal entry. Writers are like dancers, like athletes. Without that exercise, the muscles seize up. ~ Jane Yolen
I try to create sympathy for my characters, then turn the monsters loose.
~ Stephen King
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
“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
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
“It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.” Ernest Hemingway
Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart. ~ William Wadsworth
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say. ~ Anais Nin
