If you're going to have a complicated story, you must work to a map; otherwise you can never make a map of it afterwards.

Make time to write every day. The writing muscle is like any other muscle; the more you exercise it, the stronger it becomes.

If a writer starts worring about what he or she has left out or forgotten, they might not be able to write even a single line.

When I am grown up I shall carry a notebook—a fat book with many pages, methodically lettered. I shall enter my phrases.

Writers often torture themselves trying to get the words right. Sometimes you must lower your expectations and just finish it.

There are two moments worthwhile in writing, the one when you start and the other when you throw it in the waste-paper basket.

There is a difference between fresh and weird. You never want to throw your reader out of the story. Keep it fresh but natural.

‎Never say you can't be a writer or a script writer, remember how well, characters in your dreams said their dialogues.

I disagree with the advice of 'write about what you know.' Write about what you need to know, in an effort to understand.

Stop beating yourself up over all the days you didn’t work on your story. Focus on what you can do today.Sit down, and write.

Let grammar, punctuation, and spelling into your life! Even the most energetic and wonderful mess has to be turned into sentences.

...language always occurs in a context - you can speak Elizabethan words, but to speak the language you have to put on the mindset...

For every idea that's been done to DEATH, there's a child being BORN who hasn't read it yet. Don't kill your dragons.

Every writer in the history of the world has been afraid to put words on the page. But we only remember those who overcame that fear.

The first thing you have to learn when you go into the arts is to learn to cope with rejection. If you can’t, you’re dead