{"quotes":[{"text":"If you are writing fiction, think like a god. Release all the power of your imagination; create worlds and destroy them at your will, create as many miracles as your story needs.","author":"Bangambiki Habyarimana","tags":["bangambiki","book","book-lovers","book","book","books","creation","creativity","creativity","fiction","fiction","god","how-to-write","how-to-write-a-book","how-to-write-a-novel","how-to-write-fiction","imagination","imagination-writing","inspiration","miracles","paper","success-in-writing","the-great-pearl-of-wisdom","writers-and-writing","writers-block","writers-inspiration","writers-life","writers-lives","writers-on-thinking","writers-on-writing","writers","writers-books","writers-world","writing","writing-advice","writing-books","writing-fiction","writing-from-the-heart","writing-from-the-soul","writing-inspiration","writing-life","writing-philosophy","writing-process","writing-secrets","writing-success","writing-success","writing-tip","writing-tips"],"id":6323,"author_id":"Bangambiki+Habyarimana"},{"text":"The instruction here is not for every kind of writer - not for the writer of nurse books or thrillers or porno or the cheaper sort of sci-fi - though it is true that what holds for the most serious kind of fiction will generally hold for junk fiction as well. (Not everyone is capable of writing junk fiction: It requires an authentic junk mind. Most creative-writing teachers have had the experience of occasionally helping to produce, by accident, a pornographer. The most elegant techniques in the world, filtered through a junk mind, become elegant junk techniques.).","author":"John Gardner","tags":["books","craft","craftsmanship","fiction","genre-fiction","how-to-write","how-to-write-fiction","instruction","low-brow","pulp","pulp-fiction","technique","writing"],"id":26695,"author_id":"John+Gardner"},{"text":"The world would have been a better place if some men had just shut their mouths.","author":"Bangambiki Habyarimana","tags":["bangambiki","book","book-lovers","book","book","books","creation","creativity","creativity","how-to-write","how-to-write-a-book","how-to-write-a-novel","how-to-write-fiction","imagination","imagination-writing","inspiration","mouth","paper","success-in-writing","the-great-pearl-of-wisdom","writers-and-writing","writers-block","writers-inspiration","writers-life","writers-lives","writers-on-thinking","writers-on-writing","writers","writers-books","writers-world","writing","writing-advice","writing-books","writing-from-the-heart","writing-from-the-soul","writing-inspiration","writing-life","writing-philosophy","writing-process","writing-secrets","writing-success","writing-success","writing-tip","writing-tips"],"id":35594,"author_id":"Bangambiki+Habyarimana"},{"text":"If you are afraid of the critics you will never write a word.","author":"Bangambiki Habyarimana","tags":["bangambiki","book","book-lovers","book","book","books","creation","creativity","creativity","critic","critical","criticism","criticism","criticisms","critics","critics","how-to-write","how-to-write-a-book","how-to-write-a-novel","how-to-write-fiction","imagination","imagination-writing","inspiration","paper","success-in-writing","the-great-pearl-of-wisdom","writers-and-writing","writers-block","writers-inspiration","writers-life","writers-lives","writers-on-thinking","writers-on-writing","writers","writers-books","writers-world","writing","writing-advice","writing-books","writing-from-the-heart","writing-from-the-soul","writing-inspiration","writing-life","writing-philosophy","writing-process","writing-secrets","writing-success","writing-success","writing-tip","writing-tips"],"id":43267,"author_id":"Bangambiki+Habyarimana"},{"text":"The internet is killing the art of writing. The big 'publish' button begs you to publish even before you go back and make one single edit, and as if this was not enough, you have instant readers who praise your writing skills!-.","author":"Bangambiki Habyarimana","tags":["bangambiki","book","book-lovers","book","book","books","creation","creativity","creativity","criticism","edit","editing","editing","edition","how-to-edit","how-to-publish","how-to-publish-a-book","how-to-write","how-to-write-a-book","how-to-write-a-novel","how-to-write-fiction","imagination","imagination-writing","inspiration","internet","internet-publishing","internet-publishing","internet","online-publishing","online-publishing","paper","positive-criticism","praise","publish","publish-button","self-publishing","self-publishing","self-publishing-tips","success-in-writing","the-great-pearl-of-wisdom","writers-and-writing","writers-block","writers-inspiration","writers-life","writers-lives","writers-on-thinking","writers-on-writing","writers","writers-books","writers-world","writing","writing-advice","writing-books","writing-from-the-heart","writing-from-the-soul","writing-inspiration","writing-life","writing-philosophy","writing-process","writing-secrets","writing-skill","writing-success","writing-success","writing-tip","writing-tips"],"id":49950,"author_id":"Bangambiki+Habyarimana"},{"text":"Writing is magic happening on paper.","author":"Bangambiki Habyarimana","tags":["bangambiki","book","book-lovers","book","book","books","creation","creativity","creativity","how-to-write","how-to-write-a-book","how-to-write-a-novel","how-to-write-fiction","imagination","imagination-writing","inspiration","magic","magic","magician","paper","success-in-writing","the-great-pearl-of-wisdom","writers-and-writing","writers-block","writers-inspiration","writers-life","writers-lives","writers-on-thinking","writers-on-writing","writers","writers-books","writers-world","writing","writing-advice","writing-books","writing-from-the-heart","writing-from-the-soul","writing-inspiration","writing-life","writing-philosophy","writing-process","writing-secrets","writing-success","writing-success","writing-tip","writing-tips"],"id":51477,"author_id":"Bangambiki+Habyarimana"},{"text":"The fact is that if the writer's attention is on producing a work of art, a work that is good in itself, he is going to take great pains to control every excess, everything that does not contribute to this central meaning and design. He cannot indulge in sentimentality, in propagandizing, or in pornography and create a work of art, for all these things are excesses. They call attention to themselves and distract from the work as a whole.","author":"Flannery O'Connor","tags":["how-to-write","how-to-write-a-novel","how-to-write-fiction","work-of-art","writers","writers-on-writing","writing","writing-style","writing-tips"],"id":51593,"author_id":"Flannery+O%27Connor"},{"text":"Great characters- They are pivotal for a great plot. THEN a solid plot: Why then? If you do not have great characters it is impossible to create a good plot, nonetheless a solid one. Once you have built great characters for the scenes, there you have it. It’s just like the movies, you cannot have a great film if the characters are frail and their lines are weak as well. I guess great world-building comes along with a good plot. If there is something that will work fine in a novel is how you will develop from the theme. You’ve got to establish a good timeline, and from there it comes a world. You see the technical matters don’t match or matter as much to me. Even a poorly written story, if there is a good plot and great characters on it will make a divine combination There are simply many cases of it over the mainstream and that even reached the big screen.","author":"Ana Claudia Antunes","tags":["book-making","books","characters","creative-process","creative-writing","fiction","how-to-write","how-to-write-fiction","lines","plots","process-improvement","process-of-creation","stories","writers-and-writing","writers-inspiration","writers-on-writing","writing","writing-advice","writing-books","writing-process","writing-tip"],"id":66786,"author_id":"Ana+Claudia+Antunes"},{"text":"It follows from all this that there is no technique that can be discovered and applied to make it possible for one to write. If you go to a school where there are classes in writing, these classes should not be to teach you how to write, but to teach you the limits and possibilities of words and the respect due them. One thing that is always with the writer—no matter how long he has written or how good he is—is the continuing process of learning how to write. As soon as the writer 'learns to write,' as soon as he knows what he is going to find, and discovers a way to say what he knew all along, or worse still, a way to say nothing, he is finished. If a writer is any good, what he makes will have its source in a realm much larger than that which his conscious mind can encompass and will always be a greater surprise to him than it can ever be to his reader.","author":"Flannery O'Connor","tags":["good-writers","how-to-write","learning-process","technique","writers","writers-on-writing","writing","writing-class","writing-rules"],"id":70881,"author_id":"Flannery+O%27Connor"},{"text":"Now the second common characteristic of fiction follows from this, and it is that fiction is presented in such a way that the reader has the sense that it is unfolding around him. This doesn't mean he has to identify himself with the character or feel compassion for the character or anything like that. It just means that fiction has to be largely presented rather than reported. Another way to say it is that though fiction is a narrative art, it relies heavily on the element of drama.","author":"Flannery O'Connor","tags":["character","fiction-writing","how-to-write","how-to-write-a-novel","how-to-write-fiction","plot","show-don-t-tell","show-dont-tell","storytelling","writers-on-writing","writing","writing-fiction"],"id":84057,"author_id":"Flannery+O%27Connor"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":64,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}