Advice-for-writers Quotes

You sought to preserve your creative instincts and what would nourish them. But neurosis itself does...

Toni Morrison said, "The function of freedom is to free someone else," and if you are no longer wrac...

Who will teach me to write? a reader wanted to know.The page, the page, that eternal blankness, the ...

If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the...

Let failure be your workshop. See it for what is is: the world walking you through a tough but neces...

Interest is never enough. If it doesn't haunt you, you'll never write it well. What haunts and obses...

To listen to critics, pro or con, and take their words to heart is to subcontract your self-esteem t...