Write what you need to write, not what is currently popular or what you think will sell. ~ P.D. James
writer’s wisdom
Writer’s Wisdom ~ Write to Please Yourself
Don’t ask who your audience is…you are the audience: “You are writing primarily to please yourself, and if you go about it with enjoyment you will also entertain the readers who are worth writing for.” ~ William Zinsser
Writer’s Wisdom ~ Writing is Hard Work
Writing is hard work: “A clear sentence is no accident. Very few sentences come out right the first time, or even the third time. Remember this in moments of despair. If you find that writing is hard, it’s because it is hard.” ~ William Zinsser
Writer’s Wisdom ~ Importance of Reading
Read at the level at which you want to write. Reading is the nourishment that feeds the kind of writing you want to do. ~ Jennifer Egan on Reading & Writing
Writer’s Wisdom on the Importance of Commas
“Making love to me is amazing. Wait, I meant: making love, to me, is amazing. The absence of two little commas nearly transformed me into a sex god.” ~Dark Jar Tin Zoo
Writer’s Wisdom ~ Writing Rules
“There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it’s like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.”
― Ernest Hemingway
Writer’s Wisdom ~ Jennifer Egan on What Writing Feels Like
When I’m writing, especially if it’s going well, I’m living in two different dimensions: this life I’m living now, which I enjoy very much, and this completely other world I’m inhabiting that no one else knows about. ~ Jennifer Egan
Writer’s Wisdom – What Else Is There? Write
“He asked, “What makes a man a writer?” “Well,” I said, “it’s simple. You either get it down on paper, or jump off a bridge.”
― Charles Bukowski
Writer’s Wisdom ~ Why We Write
“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
― Anais Nin
Writer’s Wisdom ~ Malcolm Cowley on meditation
The book or story shapes up — assumes its own specific form, that is — during a process of meditation that is the second stage in composition. ~ Malcolm Cowley
