Author Tips
The Only Way Is Up!
The only way you should aim your life and your goals is upwards! The only way is up! Aim high. Don’t settle ever for less. Settle only for more and more and more. The only way you should aim your life and your goals is upwards! The only way is up! Aim high. Don’t settle […]
Ernest Hemingway: On Writers
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one, you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places, […]
William Allen White: Advice to Writers
Here is editor William Allen White’s advice to writers on how to get rid of the word very in their writing. Note: This quote is sometimes attributed to Mark Twain (see attributed quote at the bottom of the page), but Twain experts have denied the quote and researchers point to the Emporia Gazette editor as […]
Tom Stoppard: Words Are Sacred
Words are sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge the world a little. — Tom Stoppard, playwright and screenwriter That’s the power that writers have: To nudge the world a little. To make a difference. To make the world a little more sacred and holy. […]