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Poets & Writers ● BookBub |
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The Book of Wicked Words - AMAZON |
How To Read - AMAZON |
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Reason Book - AMAZON |
Writing Well - AMAZON |
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| Good Advice - AMAZON |
Dummy Fiction - AMAZON |
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| Fiction Writer - AMAZON |
250 Things About Writing - AMAZON |
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| Marguerite Duras Writing - AMAZON |
Write Or Die - AMAZON |
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| 500 Ways To Write - Amazon |
Song Writing - Amazon |
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| Accelerated Learning - AMAZON |
Sense of Style - AMAZON |
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| Writing Habit - AMAZON |
Speak and Write - AMAZON |
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| Breakout Novel - AMAZON |
Believe - AMAZON |
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| Egregious - AMAZON |
Writing Arguments - AMAZON |
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| Writing Research - Amazon |
Careful Writer - AMAZON |
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| Words For Writers - AMAZON |
Writing Bones - AMAZON |
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Sicario takes what would have been
a great emotionally complex female protagonist
and undermines her via repeated victimization and abuse.
~ Anita Sarkeesian |
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"The Savage Detectives"
The New Canon |
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How I Wrote 400K Words in a Year ● Harry Potter vs. Twlight
Find what you love and let it kill you. ~ Bukowski |
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How to Be a Better Writer: 6 Tips From Harvard’s Steven Pinker |
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Morning Pages ● 750 Words |
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Nothing is as real as a dream.
The world can change around you, but your dream will not.
Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it.
Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away.
~ Tom Clancy
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Daisy Ridley STILL the Mary Sue |
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Mary Sue: The Story |
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The Last Jedi: Third Time the Charm |
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How To Create A Graphic Novel |
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When asked, "How do you write?"
I invariably answer, "one word at a time."
~ Stephen King
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You learn to write the same way you learn to play golf. You do it, and keep doing it until you get it right. A lot of people think something mystical happens to you, that maybe the muse kisses you on the ear. But writing isn’t divinely inspired—it’s hard work.
~ Tom Clancy |
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Plot is people. Human emotions and desires founded on the realities of life, working at cross purposes, getting hotter and fiercer as they strike against each other until finally there's an explosion-that's Plot.
~ Leigh Brackett |
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In writing, habit seems to be a much stronger force than either willl power or inspiration.
~ John Steinbeck |
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Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away.
~ Tom Clancy |
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You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.
~Annie Proulx |
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You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist.
~ Isaac Asimov |
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No one will be alive by the last book. In fact, they all die in the fifth. The sixth book will be just a thousand-page description of snow blowing across the graves...
~ George R.R. Martin
[when asked if any of the cast of his book series, "A Song of Ice and Fire", will be left alive.] |
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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.
~ Pablo Picasso |
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Originality is nothing but judicious imitation.
~ Voltaire
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While none of the work we do is very important, it is important that we do a great deal of it.
~ Joseph Heller |
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You could complie the worst book in the world entiely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world.
~ G. K. Chesterton |
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The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary.
~ Franklin P. Adams |
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Having imagination, it take you an hour to write a paragraph that, if you were unimaginative, would tkae you only a minute. Or you might not write the paragraph at all.
~ Franklin P. Adams |
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And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
~ Erica Jong |
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All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened.
~ Ernest Hemingway |
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A writer is someboy for who writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
~ Thomas Mann |
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By the time a writer discovers he has no talent for literature, he is too successful to give it up.
~ George S. Kaufman |
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Writing came easy--it would only get hard when I got better at it.
~ Gary Wills |
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The only impeccable writers are those that never wrote.
~ William Hazlitt |
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Keep away from people who try to belittle your dreams. Small people always do that, but the really great ones make you feel that you too, can become great.
~ Mark Twain |
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Success is a finished book,
a stack of pages each of which is filled with words.
If you reach that point, you have won a victory over yourself no less impressive
than sailing single-handed around the world.
~ Tom Clancy |
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There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
~ Anonymous |
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Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
~ Stephen King |
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There is no agony like having an untold story inside you.
~ Zora Neale Hurston |
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TV ... really is about the last thing an aspiring writer needs. If you feel you must have the news analyst blowhards on CNN while you exercise, or the stock market blowhards on MSNBC, or the sports blowhards on ESPN, it's time for you to question how serious you really are about becoming a writer. You must be prepared to do some serious turning inward toward the life of the imagination, and that means, I'm afraid, that Geraldo, Keith Obermann, and Jay Leno must go. Reading takes time, and the glass teat takes too much. ~ Stephen King |
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Imagination is more important than knowledge.
~ Albert Einstein |
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The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, brain surgery.
~ Robert Cormier |
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Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
~ Calvin Coolidge |
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You don't find time to write. You make time. It's my job.
~ Nora Roberts |
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Create a character who is both proactive and sympathetic,
someone with a hole in her life, but who is willing to risk all for her goal.
When readers care, you can get away with almost anything.
~ Bonnie Hearn Hill |
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If you're a voracious reader and you write something that you want to read, odds are other people will want to read it, too.
~ Tim Maleeny |
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“Books aren't written -- they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it.
~ Michael Crichton |
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The quickest, easiest way to produce something beautiful and lasting is to risk making something horribly crappy.
~ Chris Baty |
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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
~ Thomas Edison |
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“The biggest thing separating people from their artistic ambitions is not a lack of talent. It's the lack of a DEADLINE.
~ Chris Baty |
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But I work harder now because I have so much more exposure. And actually the harder you work as a writer, the better you get at it. It's like anything else. It's a muscle you have to exercise. I write more now than ever.
~ Ron White |
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Progress comes to those who train and train; reliance on secret techniques will get you nowhere.
~ Morihei Ueshiba |
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The main rule of writing is that,
if you do it with enough assurance and confidence,
you're allowed to do whatever you like.
(That may be a rule for life as well as for writing. But it's definitely true for writing.)
~ Neil Gaiman
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