“You don’t start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it’s good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it.
That’s why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.” ―
“We write every day, we fight every day, we think and scheme and dream a little dream every day. manuscripts pile up in the kitchen sink, run-on sentences dangle around our necks. we plant purple prose in our gardens and snip the adverbs only to thread them in our hair. we write with no guarantees, no certainties, no promises of what might come and we do it anyway. this is who we are.” ―
“Writing is a struggle against silence.” ―
“People who think that grammar is just a collection of rules and restrictions are wrong. If you get to like it, grammar reveals the hidden meaning of history, hides disorder and abandonment, links things and brings opposites together. Grammar is a wonderful way of organizing the world how you’d like it to be.” ―
“If writing didn’t require thinking then we’d all be doing it.” ―
“Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.” ― Lisa See
“You can always edit a bad page. You can’t edit a blank page.” ― Jodi Picoult
Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don’t see any. – Orson Scott
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” ― Maya Angelou
“If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.” — Wally Lamb
“A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit.”— Richard Bach
“People say, ‘What advice do you have for people who want to be writers?’ I say, they don’t really need advice, they know they want to be writers, and they’re gonna do it. Those people who know that they really want to do this and are cut out for it, they know it.” — R.L. Stine
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