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In the past few years I've assigned books to be read before a student attends one of my weeklong seminars. I have been astonished by how few people -- people who supposedly want to write -- read books, and if they read them, how little they examine them. ↗

— Natalie Goldberg

#reading #writing #writing-craft

I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#writing-process #writing-process

I can fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank page. ↗

— Nora Roberts

#writing-craft

Don’t write what you know—what you know may bore you, and thus bore your readers. Write about what interests you—and interests you deeply—and your readers will catch fire at your words. ↗

— Valerie Sherwood

#writing-from-the-heart #writing-craft

Part of being a writer is defending your vision and not caving in to outside pressures. ↗

— Jennifer Crusie

#writing-craft

There are many rules of good writing, but the best way to find them is to be a good reader. ↗

— Stephen E. Ambrose

#writing-craft

So I have to create the whole thing afresh for myself each time. Probably all writers now are in the same boat. It is the penalty we pay for breaking with tradition, and the solitude makes the writing more exciting though the being read less so. One ought to sink to the bottom of the sea, probably, and live alone with ones words. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#writing-craft

If your writing doesn`t keep you up at night, it won`t keep anyone else up either". ↗

— James M. Cain

#writing-craft #writing-craft

While I'm writing, I'm far away; and when I come back, I've gone. ↗

— Pablo Neruda

#writing-craft

... And the only way to find that honesty is to not overthink it. For your writing to come alive--to be multi-dimensional--you must barter away some control. ↗

— Elizabeth Sims

#books #writing #writing-craft #writing-craft