{"quotes":[{"text":"Interest is never enough. If it doesn't haunt you, you'll never write it well. What haunts and obsesses you may, with luck and labour, interest your readers. What merely interests you is sure to bore them. (from Workbook).","author":"Steven Heighton","tags":["advice-for-writers","obsession","reading"],"id":16265,"author_id":"Steven+Heighton"},{"text":"There's just one advice for an aspiring writer write. ","author":"Scifurz","tags":["advice-for-writers","motivational"],"id":26745,"author_id":"Scifurz"},{"text":"This is the same establishment that all those who want, or rather aspire to, to be literary figures of the century, artists, painters and sculptors want acceptance from and approval. They want to be looked up to. Young and upcoming poets must approach their craft with an almost angelic perspective. So many writers are missing a condensed fusion in their writing, they condescend to their audience, the truth is not spoken in their work, they gabble, their words seem to make a hot fuss on the page. What do they gain? They gain this, simply nothing. Poets must assemble and present their work accordingly to how they see fit and should be careful of advice from other writers and editors. Sometimes there can be too much going on in the words that are meant to be given with the best of intentions.","author":"Abigail George","tags":["advice-for-writers","craft","establishment","intentions","perspective","truths"],"id":54193,"author_id":"Abigail+George"},{"text":"Let failure be your workshop. See it for what is is: the world walking you through a tough but necessary semester, free of tuition. (from Workbook).","author":"Steven Heighton","tags":["advice-for-writers","education","failure"],"id":60804,"author_id":"Steven+Heighton"},{"text":"Our stories hold unique inspiration for one another.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["advice-for-daily-living","advice-for-writers","advice","advice-to-beginners","advice-to-daughter","caring-and-loving","caring-for-others","caring-heart-warming","caring-loved-one","caring","daily-life","daily-living","empathy","empowerment","encourage-yourself","encouragement-and-attitude","encouraging-and-empowering-girls","fulfilling-your-destiny","fulfilling-your-potential","giving-love","giving","humanity-advice","inspirational-life","inspirational","inspired-life","inspired","inspired-soul","inspiring-on-life","love-story","loving-kindness","loving-people","potential-for-greatness","potential","purpose-of-life","purpose","sharing-is-caring","sharing-life","sharing-pain","sharing","sharing-the-gospel","sharing-thoughts","sharing-your-gifts","story-of-my-life","storybook","storyteller","travel","uniqueness","wisdom","wise","wise-sayings","wise-words","writing-advice","writing-life","writing-philosophy","writing","your-journey","your-uniqueness"],"id":61312,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"[When asked for her advice to aspiring writers] Run! Just kidding. Sort of. Really, I think the best advice I can give is to wait for the book that compels you to write it-- the one that you eat, sleep, and breathe. If you try to force yourself to create an epic story, you will feel the ensuing drudgery quite acutely-- and worse, your readers will feel it too. Conversely, if you wait for the book that won't leave you alone until you finish it, your readers will feel that energy and it will make it difficult for them to put the book down until they have finished it!","author":"Kealohilani","tags":["advice","advice-for-writers","creative-process","humor","inspirational","writing","writing-process"],"id":78498,"author_id":"Kealohilani"},{"text":"Good advice is not often served in our favorite flavor.","author":"Tim Fargo","tags":["advice","advice-for-daily-living","advice-for-writers","advice-to-beginners","discovery","discovery-of-oneself","growth","learn","learning","learning-from-mistakes","learning-process","learning-the-truth","learning-to-live","listen","listening","listening-skills","personal-development","personal-growth","personal-transformation","personality","self-awareness","self-growth","self-improvement","self-motivation","self-realization"],"id":88222,"author_id":"Tim+Fargo"},{"text":"My advice would be to write-never to stop writing, to keep it up all the time, to be painstaking about it, to write until you begin to write.","author":"Gabriel Fielding","tags":["advice-for-writers","creativity","writing"],"id":88894,"author_id":"Gabriel+Fielding"},{"text":"The secret to good writing is to use small words for big ideas, not to use big words for small ideas.","author":"Oliver Markus","tags":["advice-for-writers","advice","brevity","honesty","secrets","simplicity","simplifying","writers","writers-and-writing","writers-on-thinking","writers-on-writing","writing","writing-advice","writing-craft","writing-philosophy","writing-tips"],"id":123199,"author_id":"Oliver+Markus"},{"text":"I ran across an excerpt today (in English translation) of some dialogue/narration from the modern popular writer, Paulo Coelho in his book: Aleph.(Note: bracketed text is mine.)... 'I spoke to three scholars,' [the character says 'at last.'] ...Two of them said that, after death, the [sic (misprint, fault of the publisher)] just go to Paradise. The third one, though, told me to consult some verses from the Koran. [end quote]' ...I can see that he's excited. [narrator]' ...Now I have many positive things to say about Coelho: He is respectable, inspiring as a man, a truth-seeker, and an appealing writer; but one should hesitate to call him a 'literary' writer based on this quote. A 'literary' author knows that a character's excitement should be 'shown' in his or her dialogue and not in the narrator's commentary on it. Advice for Coelho: Remove the 'I can see that he's excited' sentence and show his excitement in the phrasing of his quote.(Now, in defense of Coelho, I am firmly of the opinion, having myself written plenty of prose that is flawed, that a novelist should be forgiven for slipping here and there.)Lastly, it appears that a belief in reincarnation is of great interest to Mr. Coelho ... Just think! He is a man who has achieved, (as Leonard Cohen would call it), 'a remote human possibility.' He has won lots of fame and tons of money. And yet, how his preoccupation with reincarnation—none other than an interest in being born again as somebody else—suggests that he is not happy!","author":"Roman Payne","tags":["advice-for-writers","aleph","art-of-literature","hip","birth","born-again","characterization","coelho","cohen","craft","craftsmanship","critique","critique-of-modernity","dialogue","education","educational","excitement","fame","fame-and-fortune","famous-","faults","fortune","grammar","grammatical","happiness","happiness-positive-outlook","happy","human-potential","humaneness","imperfection","inspiration","inspirational-attitude","inspirational-life","inspiring","inspiring","islam","islamic","islamic","koran","leonard-cohen","life","life-and-death","literary-criticism","literary-theory","literature","narration","novelist","novels","paradise","paulo-coelho","payne","phrasing","publishing","reincarnation","roman","roman-payne","sentence-structure","truth","writing","writing-advice","writing-and-art","writing-art","writing-as-a-profession","writing-craft","writing-from-the-heart"],"id":132550,"author_id":"Roman+Payne"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":33,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}