I think most writers, even the best, overwrite. I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
—Truman Capote
Capote’s Rules
Category: Writing
Hemingway’s Rules
There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it’s like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.
—Ernest Hemingway
An Artist’s fear…
If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.
—Natalie Goldberg
Suspicious…
I’m a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.
—Alfred Hitchcock
Wishful thinking
All writers have this vague hope that the elves will come in the night and finish any stories.
—Neil Gaiman
A Writer’s Power
Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
—Sinclair Lewis
First Draft
The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.
– Terry Pratchett
Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down.
—John Steinbeck
Getting the most from life
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.
– George R. R. Martin
Hold Fast to Dreams
Hold fast to dreams. For if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
– Langston Hughes
Wishful thinking
All writers have this vague hope that the elves will come in the night and finish any stories.
—Neil Gaiman
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