writing-advice

...a writer without authority? Impossible. as Kenneth Burke says, creation implies authority in the sense of originator....

...people quote proverbs without realizing they're really in awe of the authority of their truth and the power of their expression...

Upon the one thing every writer absolutely must have, and that is intellectual curiosity.

...how many writers still dare compare a woman to Nature, like Campion? - there is a garden in her face - how lovely...

Just write. That's my only tip. And read. I guess that's two.

Let life be the foundation. Be brave. Wander deep inside yourself to the little room no one knows about. Fling the door wide open and write.

Give all that you can. No more. No less. Every. Single. Day.

I know it's difficult in the beginning. But, listen. If you have the impulse to write, do yourself a favor, do the world a favor, and write.

Don't be afraid of what you're creating.

I do not recommend writing a screenplay in two weeks.

...writing allows us to reposition ourselves so we can see what is otherwise in our mental blind spots or those things about oneself and the world that we neither can see nor understand from the spot where we stand.

If we are artists- hell, whether or not we're artists- it is our job, our responsibility, perhaps even our sacred calling, to take whatever life has handed us and make something new, something that wouldn't have existed if not for the fire, the genetic mutation, the sick baby, the accident.

Does rejection ever get any easier? Only if we decide not to invest emotion in the dismissal_

Replace your old books with the book you've always wanted to write.

Replace your old books with the books you__e always wanted to write.

By writing, we partake in something greater than ourselves. Pick up pen and paper or take a seat at your computer today and create something of beauty.

Every word I write is a seed that I may nurture into a small, beautiful poem or a tall, soaring tree.

Never be afraid to write what you believe. If the message speaks the truth, others will fear your words for you.