Read moreLearning to write is learning to think.
You don’t know anything clearly unless you can state it in writing.—S. I. Hayakawa
Read moreShow up. Show up in front of the computer or the typewriter. And if I show up long enough—it happens.
—Isabel Allende
Read moreI have advice for people who want to write.
I don’t care whether they’re 5 or 500.
There are three things that are important:First,
if you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you. Where you just put down what you think about life, what you think about things, what you think is fair and what you think is unfair.And second,
you need to read. You can’t be a writer if you’re not a reader. It’s the great writers who teach us how to write.The third thing
is to write. Just write a little bit every day. Even if it’s for only half an hour—write, write, write.―Madeleine L’Engle
Read moreLet’s get one thing clear right now, shall we? There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried Bestsellers; good story ideas seem to come quite literally from nowhere, sailing at you right out of the empty sky: two previously unrelated ideas come together and make something new under the sun.
Your job isn’t to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up.—Steven King
Read moreThe muses love mornings.
—Benjamin Franklin
Read moreIt may be that when we no longer know which way to go that we have come to our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.
Wendell Berry
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