A word after a word after a word is power.
Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.
Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.
The road to hell is paved with adverbs.
Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.
Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.
I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.
Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don't see any.
A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.
Cheat your landlord if you can -- and must -- but do not try to shortchange the Muse.
There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
The scariest moment is always just before you start.
I have rewritten — often several times — every word I have ever published. My pencils outlast their erasers.
Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.
Writing's about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting happy.
Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head.
One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.
After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.
I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.
So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads.
Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on
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