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I would say just start writing. You've got to write every day. Copy someone that you like if you think that perhaps could become your sound, too. I did that with Hemingway, and I thought I was writing just like Hemingway. Then all of a sudden it occurred to me - he didn't have a sense of humor. I don't know anything he's written that's funny. — Elmore Leonard

A novelist must know what his last chapter is going to say and one way or another work toward that last chapter. ... To me it is utterly basic yet it seems like it's a great secret. — Leon Uris

There is no such thing as lack of time, only unclear priorities and lack of motivation. It is better to abandon a project than to work on it half-heartedly for a protracted period of time. — Gudjon Bergmann The Author's...

I learn from everything I do, right and wrong. I think it helps me grow as a writer and a person. — Darynda Jones

You take a universal concept, something that has been done a million times (because everything has been done a million times), and add a fresh twist to it. Something no one saw coming. But mostly fresh writing! Keep it clean, simple, and compelling. — Darynda Jones

The more time you can put between you and your manuscript, the more fresh your eyes become and the more mistakes you'll catch. Let a chapter rest for a day, you'll see ways to improve it. Let your completed book rest a month or more and you'll see stuff that's long or that you want to skip. Read it out loud to get rid of awkward phrases and listen to your critique partners if they are good. — Dan Alatorre

Never use the passive voice. Do not say, 'It will get done.' Say, 'I'll do it,' and then stick to a solid, unwavering deadline — Gina Barreca "If You Lean In,...

But on the question of who you're writing for, don't be eager to please. — William Zinsser On Writing Well:...

The thing you are most afraid to write—write that - advice to young writers — Nayyirah Waheed Salt

You must write as if Dostoyevsky himself will be reading your novel, and Shakespeare will be acting it out. — Christina Westover Precipice

One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at your own joke. — Mark Twain

good writing should be grasped at once - in a second. — Francine Prose Reading Like a...

If something inside of you is real, we will probably find it interesting, and it will probably be universal. So you must risk placing real emotion at the center of your work. Write straight into the...

Let at least one word of my writings impregnate the reader's heart.

But let the wise be warned against too great readiness at explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure to go wrong.

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