writing-quotes

Deal with your readers that theyare smart, and write a language thatsuits their intelligence.- How to write the best story-

But the secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components. Every word that serves no function, every long words that could be a short word, every adverb that carries the same meaning that's already in the verb. every passive construction that leaves the reader unsure of who is doing what-these are the thousand and one adulterants that weaken the strength of a sentence. And they usually occur in proportion to education and rank.

You have to simply love writing, and you have to remind yourself often that you love it.

No one ever tells you that: that there__ no method. Writing__ a lawless place.

The longer I don't write, the more I hurt.

Writing is capturing life, recording the human condition, and trying to glean meaning from it.

When I told my teachers I wanted to be a writer, alot of them encouraged me to lower my expectations and to be more realistic. So I rode away on my magical, winged horse, spraying faerie dust behind me, and laughing manically as I went.

A poet__ words are like mortar to the bricks of society.

We will read books together inside the blanket and stay warm. And keep writing poetry in our respective journals. Time will fly but we will still remain inside the blanket forever.

A writer must expect other people to criticize their work and open-mindedly consider all worthwhile suggestions. Martial arts master Bruce Lee advised anyone attempting to master a difficult enterprise to learn from other people but also liberally experiment and judiciously draw from our own well of intelligence and talent. __dapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.

A rain forest springs from the droppings of animals and grows greater than any cultivated garden; likewise, a great mass of literary skill springs from the droppings of writers that cross our minds through the reading we do.

Your sensitivity, your tenderness, your eyes make me pick up my pen and write, Mrignayni!

Writing fiction or nonfiction is a lonely battle wrestling with sentences in an effort to put together an intelligible thought that speaks for the author.

Never use the passive voice. Do not say, 'It will get done.' Say, 'I'll do it,' and then stick to a solid, unwavering deadline

Writing reflects life and life is a mystery. All any of us can do is press the fleet footed beauty of life close to our flesh and use whatever instruments are within our grasp to express the evanescent spark of mysticism that resides within us.

A chef__ magic is his ingredients, how he can substitute one for another, then break with convention by changing it all around again without once referring to the recipe. And then just at the death complete the beauty by adding another element never previously thought of. Well words are the writer__ sorcery, our dark arts and our sleight of hand. They__e our enchantment and our temptation. Sometimes both the chef and the writer overindulges himself and it gets out of hand, but that__ how we like it, it__ how we__e ghosted some of our best creations.

The skill of writing needs much patience, practicing, and time. There is no good writing from a quick effort, or a confused writer.

Writing's in the nouns.