“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
writer’s block
✒️ 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 ~ Hold Firm to Your Gift
“If you don’t compromise your gift, if you write each day as well as you can, and then submit your work and not worry about it and go on to the next piece, you suddenly find oddly enough that you’re no more interested in the applause than the silence. You don’t hear either one of them. You can never listen to the naysayers. If you do you won’t survive.”
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Want to Write a Thriller?
“The way to write a thriller is to ask a question at the beginning, and answer it at the end.”
~ Lee Child
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ The Organic Nature of Writing
“You never learn how to write a novel.
You just learn how to write the novel that you’re writing.”
Gene Wolfe
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ The Loneliness of Writing
“I think that all writers feel alienated. … I know that I do. … I still feel, as I think most creative people do, absolutely isolated.”
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Are You a Writer?
A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls. Story-tellers and poets spend their lives learning that skill and art of using words well. And their words make the souls of their readers stronger, brighter, deeper.
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Looking for a Story Idea?
“You can spin stories out of the ways people understand and misunderstand each other.”
~ Ian Mcewan
