{"quotes":[{"text":"On writing, my advice is the same to all. If you want to be a writer, write. Write and write and write. If you stop, start again. Save everything that you write. If you feel blocked, write through it until you feel your creative juices flowing again. Write. Writing is what makes a writer, nothing more and nothing less. — Ignore critics. Critics are a dime a dozen. Anybody can be a critic. Writers are priceless. — Go where the pleasure is in your writing. Go where the pain is. Write the book you would like to read. Write the book you have been trying to find but have not found. But write. And remember, there are no rules for our profession. Ignore rules. Ignore what I say here if it doesn’t help you. Do it your own way. — Every writer knows fear and discouragement. Just write. — The world is crying for new writing. It is crying for fresh and original voices and new characters and new stories. If you won’t write the classics of tomorrow, well, we will not have any. Good luck.","author":"Anne Rice","tags":["critics","writing-advice","writing-life"],"id":386,"author_id":"Anne+Rice"},{"text":"Ideas either age like fine wine or rot like potatoes over time.","author":"Pawan Mishra","tags":["aspiring-writers","books","creative-people","creative-process","creative-writing","creativity","fiction","fundamentals-of-creative-writing","fundamentals-of-writing","literature","on-writing","power-of-words","on-writing","reading","short-story","stories","story-writing","storytelling","tips-on-writing","write","writers","writing","writing-advice","writing-craft","writing-fiction","writing-from-the-heart","writing-ideas","writing-style"],"id":549,"author_id":"Pawan+Mishra"},{"text":"Saepa stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint scripturas. (Turn the stylus [to erase] often if you would write something worthy of being reread.).","author":"Horace","tags":["advice","latin","writing","writing-advice"],"id":2217,"author_id":"Horace"},{"text":"You have to simply love writing, and you have to remind yourself often that you love it.","author":"Susan Orlean","tags":["writing-advice","writing"],"id":3258,"author_id":"Susan+Orlean"},{"text":"It isn't enough to have had an interesting or hilarious or tragic life. Art isn't anecdote. It's the consciousness we bring to bear on our lives. For what happened in the story to transcend the limits of the personal, it must be driven by the engine of what the story means.","author":"Cheryl Strayed","tags":["inspirational","life","meaning","memoir","philosophy-of-life","storytelling","writing-advice"],"id":3798,"author_id":"Cheryl+Strayed"},{"text":"If you have nothing good to say about someone, write a book about them. - Carmen Fox, Life Motto.","author":"Carmen Fox","tags":["humor","writing-advice"],"id":3926,"author_id":"Carmen+Fox"},{"text":"Stay within the confines of your chosen topic. If you start to stray away from your topic and find an urge to showcase everything that you know, resist that urge. Remember that you are writing a book, not the book.","author":"Gudjon Bergmann","tags":["writing","writing-a-book","writing-advice","writing-process"],"id":4555,"author_id":"Gudjon+Bergmann"},{"text":"The solution to entrapment in the narcissistic hothouse of self is to not relinquish autobiographical writing, but to expand the self by bringing one's curiosity to interface with more and more history and the present world.","author":"Phillip Lopate","tags":["wisdom","writing-advice","writing-craft"],"id":5650,"author_id":"Phillip+Lopate"},{"text":"Audiences will admire your character’s strength but connect with them through their weakness.","author":"Don Roff","tags":["admire","audience","character","character-flaw","connect","empathy","inspirational","strength","weakness","writing","writing-advice","writing"],"id":5734,"author_id":"Don+Roff"},{"text":"Writing is easy. Writing well is hard work.","author":"Amy Joy","tags":["writing","writing-advice","writing-craft","writing-process-writing-advice"],"id":6181,"author_id":"Amy+Joy"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":702,"pages":71,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}