on writing

thoughts about writing

As Lisa Jewell, author of some eighteen bestselling novels, put it, “Pace yourself. If you write too much, too quickly, you’ll go off at tangents and lose your way and if you write infrequently you’ll lose your momentum. A thousand words a day is a good ticking over amount.”

Greg Mckeown • Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most

Weasel words — ou palavras evasivas — são termos ou expressões que são vagos ou ambíguos, usados para evitar fazer uma afirmação clara e direta. Eles muitas vezes servem para enganar ou manipular a percepção do ouvinte ou leitor, permitindo que o falante se distancie de uma posição firme.

A expressão "muita gente diz" é um exemplo de weasel words, p

Writing of something you’ve done yourself is all you need to add life to a book, and that breath can fly into new stories.

DBC Pierre • Release the Bats: Writing Your Way Out Of It

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed. —Ernest Hemingway

Tom White • How to Write Anything

Writing fiction often contains an element of self-hypnosis, of flying in the dark.

Teju Cole • Black Paper: Writing in a Dark Time (Berlin Family Lectures)

You can't think well without writing well, and you can't write well without reading well.

Paul Graham • The Need to Read

The novelist Nicholas Delbanco has remarked that by the age of four one has experienced nearly everything one needs as a writer of fiction: love, pain, loss, boredom, rage, guilt, fear of death. The writer’s business is to make up convincing human beings and create for them basic situations and actions by means of which they come to know themselves