“There is a sweet little horror story that is only two sentences long: The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock at the door… Two sentences and an ellipsis of three dots.”
writer’s block
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Need an Idea for a Story?
“Everything you look at can become a fairy tale and you can get a story from everything you touch.”
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Is It Time to Please Yourself?
“One day a long time from now you’ll cease to care anymore whom you please or what anybody has to say about you. That’s when you’ll finally produce the work you’re capable of.”
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Don’t Let the Naysayers Get You Down
“It is impossible to discourage the real writers – they don’t give a damn what you say, they’re going to write.”
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Need an Idea for a Story?
“In fact, I think every book I’ve written has been inspired by a real event.”
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Where All Stories Hide
To ask an author who hopes to be a serious writer if his work is autobiographical is like asking a spider where he buys his thread. The spider gets his thread right out of his own guts, and that is where the author gets his writing.
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Working With Your Story Characters
“My fictitious characters will take the bit between their teeth and gallop off and do something that I hadn’t counted on. However, I always insist on dragging them back to the straight and narrow.”
~ Colleen McCullough
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Watch and Learn
“If a writer stops observing, he is finished.”
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Choosing a Point of View
“One of the most difficult things in writing a novel or anything at all is to choose the point of view from which it’s going to be told.”
~ Truman Capote
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ The Starting Place for a Story
“It begins with a character, usually, and once he stands up on his feet and begins to move, all I can do is trot along behind him with a paper and pencil trying to keep up long enough to put down what he says and does.”
