I think that it is more worthwhile to stick with a story and revise it and try to finish it than abandon ship. Revisions, for any writer, are the name of the game.
Gail Carson Levine
Category: Quotes
The four prime disciplines of any writer are: Imagining, Observing, Reading and Writing.
Stephen Koch
The four prime disciplines
There are times when the page in front of me is a hot mess. What to do? Make one thing better than it was the day before. And day by day, week by week the story comes to life.
Gennifer Choldenko
There are times when
How do you write? You write, man, you write, that’s how…If you practice an art faithfully it will make you wise, and most writers can use a little wising up.
William Saroyan
How do you write?
The thing about a story is that you dream it as you tell it, hoping that others might then dream along with you, and in this way memory and imagination and language combine to make spirits in the head.
Tim O’Brien