If the reader doesn’t understand what you’re saying, you’re talking to yourself.
– Nigel Hamilton
Tag: yourself
Quotable 435
Remind yourself, every day, that you’re doing this to try to find something out about yourself, about the world, about words and how they fit together. Writing is investigation. Just keep seeking.
– Naomi Alderman
Quotable 428
Part of being a writer is getting yourself quiet enough and out of the way enough that the character can just speak.
– Callie Khouri
Quotable 422
Be yourself and your readers will follow you anywhere. Try to commit an act of writing and they will jump overboard to get away.
– William Zinsser
Quotable 417
Being a writer isn’t some grand, mystical state of being, it just means you put words together to amuse people, most of all yourself.
– John Scalzi