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
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🖋 Writers’ Wisdom ~ If . . .
“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
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Authenticity
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
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Believe in Yourself
“It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.” Ernest Hemingway
🖋 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
