The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.
Neil Gaiman
Author: Susan Uhlig
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
Cyril Connolly
Better to write for yourself
Dialogue is not just a quotation. It is grimaces, pauses, adjustment of blouse buttons, doodles on a napkin, and crossings of legs.
Jerome Stern
Dialogue is not just
What I have come to understand is that clarifying intention happens through a process of discovery; the more you write the clearer all your characters intentions become.
Shutta Crum
What I have come to
You should be able to expose the spine of the story in one core sentence.
Norma Fox Mazer