For Writers



Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

- Mark Twain

Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things, you’re doomed.

- Ray Bradbury

Revisions means being able to let go of what it was to make it all that it can be.

- AE Rought

You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

- Jack London

I do a first draft as passionately and as quickly as I can. I believe a story is only valid when it is immediate and passionate; when it dances out of your subconscious. If you interfere with it in any way, you destroy it.

- Ray Bradbury

A query letter is like the perfect skirt: long enough to cover everything but short enough to be exciting.

- Andrea Brown

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The only 12½ Writing Rules you’ll ever need. Source: AllPosters.com

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