10 Best Pieces of Writing Advice That Will Help You To Become The Next Best-Selling Author
And quotes from famous authors to explain each
Writing is a beautiful art form, but just like any other art field, there is an amount of effort that must be spent to reach mastery. That’s why the most common advice for us is to write as much as we can.
But I also think that we can learn a lot from experienced writers, and so today I’d like to share with you the 10 best pieces of writing advice, and quotes from famous authors to explain each.
These are:
1-Feedback matters 2-Writing is not complex 3-Reading is the oxygen of writing 4-Never trying is worse than failing 5-Don’t give up easily 6-Be clear in your writing 7- Writing is the only way to learn writing 8-Writing should not feel like writing 9-Remember that editing later is an option 10-Writing is not a visual art
10 Best Pieces of Writing Advice That Will Help You To Become The Next Best-Selling Author
1-Feedback matters
“When he would say, ‘You can do better than that. Better, Tolkien, please!’ I would try. I’d sit down and write the section over and over. That happened with the scene I think is the best in the book, the confrontation between Gandalf and his rival wizard, Saruman, in the ravaged city of Isengard.”
— J.R.R. Tolkien
2-Writing is not complex
” This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until it’s done. It’s that easy, and that hard.”
— Neil Gaiman
3-Reading is the oxygen of writing
“The most important thing for any aspiring writer, I think, is to read! And not just the sort of thing you’re trying to write, be that fantasy, SF, comic books, whatever. You need to read everything.”
— G.R.R. Martin
4-Never trying is worse than failing
“Fear of failure is the saddest reason on earth not to do what you were meant to do…Ultimately, wouldn’t you rather be the person who actually finished the project you’re dreaming about, rather than the one who talks about ‘always having wanted to’?”
-J.K. Rowling
5-Don’t give up easily
“If you are tired learn to rest, not give up.”
— Banksy
6-Be clear in your writing
“Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn’t mean anything else.”
— C.S. Lewis
7- Writing is the only way to learn writing
“The only way to learn to write a novel is to write a novel”
— Diana Gabaldon
8-Writing should not feel like writing
” If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it.”
— Elmore Leonard
9-Remember that editing later is an option
“If you have a limited amount of time to write, you just sit down and do it. You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can’t edit a blank page.”
— Jodi Picoult
10-Writing is not a visual art
“Write with the ear, not the eye. Make every sentence sound good.”
— C.S. Lewis
Final thoughts
The beautiful thing about technology is that today you can choose any famous writer as your teacher in the mastery of this art, and learn from them.
So today I wanted to share with you the 10 best pieces of writing advice, and quotes from famous authors to explain each.
I hope they have been helpful for you as they have been for me.
Thank you for reading.
-E.K.
