http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/feb/20/ten-rules-for-writing-fiction-part-one
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/feb/20/10-rules-for-writing-fiction-part-two
Have regrets. They are fuel. On the page they flare into desire.
- Geoff Dyer
Description is hard. Remember that all description is an opinion about the world. Find a place to stand.
- Anne Enright
You have to love before you can be relentless.
- Jonathan Franzen
Fix it. Remember that, sooner or later, before it ever reaches
perfection, you will have to let it go and move on and start to write
the next thing. Perfection is like chasing the horizon. Keep moving.
- Neil Gaiman
Don't just plan to write – write. It is only by writing, not dreaming about it, that we develop our own style.
- PD James
Be without fear. This is impossible, but let the small fears drive your
rewriting and set aside the large ones until they behave – then use
them, maybe even write them. Too much fear and all you'll get is
silence.
- AL Kennedy
Don't worry about posterity – as Larkin (no sentimentalist) observed "What will survive of us is love".
- Helen Dunmore
Ted Hughes gave me this advice and it works wonders: record moments,
fleeting impressions, overheard dialogue, your own sadnesses and
bewilderments and joys.
- Michael Morpurgo
Remember there is no such thing as nonsense.
- Andrew Motion
Keep a light, hopeful heart. But expect the worst.
- Joyce Carol Oates
Oh, and not forgetting the occasional beating administered by the sadistic guards of the imagination.-
- Will Self
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