Easy reading is damn hard writing.
topic: Reading, Writing, Easy, Journal Writing, Inspiration To Write

Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.
topic: Writing, Long, Needs, Novel Writing, Story Writers
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.
source: "The Figure a Poem Makes". Book by Ernest Hemingway, 1939.
topic: Reading, Book, Writing, Story Writers, Story Writing
Find the key emotion; this may be all you need know to find your short story.
topic: Writing, Keys, Needs, Story Writers, Story Writing
There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
topic: Writing, Real Talk, Three, Novel Writing, Inspiration To Write
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
source: Jack London (2015). “Jack London on Adventure: Words of Wisdom from an Expert Adventurer”, p.5, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
topic: Funny, Witty, Life Changing, Creativeness, Creative People
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
topic: Writing, Bad Ass, Typewriters, Inspiration To Write, Starting To Write
topic: Writing, Stories, Novel, Novel Writing, Inspiration To Write
topic: Struggle, Book, Writing, Inspiration To Write, Writing Advice
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
topic: Hero, Book, Reading, Novel Writing, Writing Advice
To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
topic: Book, Writing, Produce, Writing Advice, Writing Short
topic: Life, Sad, Creativity, Self-doubt, Improvising
We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
topic: Love, Writing, Heart, Writing Advice, Why We Write
topic: Writing, Stories, Details, Story Writers, Story Writing
source: The Nigger of the Narcissus preface (1897)
topic: Writing, Trying, Tasks, Power Of Words, Fiction Writers
topic: Book, Reading, Writing, Great Writing, Real Talk
Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.
topic: Writing, Story Writers, Details, Story Writing, Writing Short Stories
Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.
source: Quoted in Playboy, May 1979
topic: Writing, Moments, Worst, Writing Fiction, Writing Short
Read, read read. Read everything.
topic: Writing, Famous Writers, Writers Reading, Inspiring Writing, Reading And Writing
topic: Writing, May, Matter, Writing Advice, Good Writers
If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Attitude, Joy Of Reading, Creative Writing
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
topic: Book, Reading, Writing, Great Writing, Libraries Books And Reading
Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything.
topic: Sorry, Writing, Fiction, Writing By Writers, Writing Short
Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
topic: Book, Literature, Wells, Great Writing, Libraries Books And Reading
topic: Writing, Editors, Crafts, Cursing, Creative Writing