On working with other writers: You develop honesty and you can then ask the really embarrassing questions. I have learned so many things I didn’t want to know, and they were all a result of interesting interviews for background information.
Inspiration comes from your writing. Thoughts meander subliminally through our subconscious, at night when we sleep the brain is working. In the act of writing, phrases come out and you think: wow, did I write this? Did I have that insight? Sometimes you know something...
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Chloe Thurlow
Writing doesn’t get any easier with time or talent. If writing is easy for you, you’re probably still learning the craft. You haven’t perfected your style or landed upon your “voice.” You haven’t learned to analyze your writing with a critical eye, to rip it...
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Darynda Jones
I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day.
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Ernest Hemingway
I believe that fiction with its untrammelled nature, speaks to no one, and by so doing, speaks to all.
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Chigozie Obioma
And doesn't a writer do the same thing? Isn't she knitting together scraps of dreams? She hunts down the most vivid details and links them in sequences that will let a reader see, smell, and hear a world that seems complete in itself; she builds...
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Anthony Doerr
More Quotes By Dan Alatorre
Believe in yourself and start achieving your dream. It waits for you on the other side of the publish button.
Honesty makes stories real and characters memorable. From there, taking them to where they need to go will be all the development they need.
I take the rawest, realest moments in anyone’s life and I open them up and lay them bare. The innocence of a five year old child, the awkwardness of a teenager’s first sexual encounter, the heartbreak of longing for a relationship you can’t have, confronting...
Pound it out, get it done, write every day. No excuses. Kerouac said you can’t wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club. Damn straight. You’ll sleep a lot better getting your word count in than another quick Twitter check or...
You have to put yourself out there as a writer, you can’t play it safe.
