“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
~ Robert Frost
writing
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ 3 Writing Tools
“A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.”
~ William Faulkner
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Dare to Risk When You Write
“The important thing is not what we write but how we write, and in my opinion the modern writer must be an adventurer above all, willing to take every risk, and be prepared to founder in his effort if need be. In other words we must write dangerously.”
~ James Joyce
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ The Adventure of Writing
“Writing is like a rollercoaster ride for me, an adventure. I love exploring the world through playing people who are absolutely nothing like me.”
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Fire Up Your Imagination
“The worst advice a young writer can get is “Write what you know.” Imagination is more important than experience.”
~ Joe Haldeman
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Trouble Plotting?
“All you need to know about plotting is twofold. 1. Give your characters goals. 2. Don’t let them reach those goals.”
~ J. A. Konrath
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Dive 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 ~ Writing a Crime Novel?
The best crime novels are all based on people keeping secrets. All lying – you may think a lie is harmless, but you put them all together and there’s a calamity.
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Flashes of Insight
“My books come to me in images, and sometimes the image is at the beginning of the book, and sometimes it’s simply a flash somewhere in the middle.”
~ Robert Crais
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ No Self Doubts Allowed
“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
~ Sylvia Plath
