writing-books

Attributing to another author, "Writing a novel is like setting a goal and walking there in your sleep.

Never try to keep it professional, keep it smutty, write with bodily fluids on sandpaper, and damn the men with clipboards in white suits, the literary bean-counters, the prose police.

The worst part of writing is meeting all these great new characters and having no one to talk about (the adventures you share with) them.

It is imperative that your work habits from school do not make their way into your book writing process. I am talking about the practice of typing the last words just before the deadline every time you would hand in an assignment, a paper, or even a thesis. Your book needs time to mature, and you must allow yourself the luxury of rewriting and editing until you are satisfied.

Perhaps the hardest thing in all literature_ at least I have found it so: by no voluntary effort can I accomplish it: I have to take it as it comes_ is to write anything original. And perhaps the easiest is, when once an original line has been struck out, to follow it up, and to write any amount more to the same tune.

Being blind is the worst possible thing and asking me to read and write no more is torture.

Time to turn some phrases and place them on these here pages.

Dreams are there for those who dare to dream them.

Books are like rivers, meandering this way and that, but taking us on a steady, flowing course to somewhere different.

The biggest difference between writing a movie and writing a novel? No one ever tries to sleep with me to get into one of my novels.

Someone asked me, 'How do you write a book?' I said, 'I live with a pen in one hand.

It's better to be remembered for what you said, not what you earned.

Mostly writing requires massive dedication, a whole lot of time spent alone, way too much sitting, countless hours spent thinking hard, and unending and occasionally painful dedication to forming ideas and laboring over the production of sentences, paragraphs, scenes, dialogue, punctuation, and all the elements that go into writing a novel, a play, a screenplay, or a poem. When we're not writing, we're thinking, plotting, imagining, or editing, which can be far more tedious than cranking out first drafts.--Fire Up Your Writing Brain

MFA in a Box is designed to help you to find the courage to put truth into words and to understand that writing is a life-and-death endeavor _ but that nothing about a life-and-death endeavor keeps it from being laugh-out-loud funny.

Words are the writer's sorcery, our dark arts and our sleight of hand. They're our enchantment and our temptation

Every writer or wanna-be writer has ideas for books. The problem isn't finding an idea, it's choosing one

Writing a story about a place calls that world into existence. Sometimes, as the author, you accompany it for a while. But even as you write, the characters have minds of their own.

Every book I've read appears in my writing.