#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

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

— Jennifer Crusie

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

— Stephen E. Ambrose

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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

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

— James M. Cain

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

— Pablo Neruda

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... 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

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Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

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Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties." (Interview in Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Eighth Series, ed. George Plimpton, 1988) ↗

— John Irving

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You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner. Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare ↗

— Erica Jong

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