Writing By Writers

It’s none of their

It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way. Ernest Hemingway

Details make stories human,

Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better. Ernest Hemingway

No tears in the

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. Ernest Hemingway

There is nothing to

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

We are all apprentices

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master. Ernest Hemingway

When something can be

When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing. Enrique Jardiel Poncela

I try to leave

I try to leave out the parts readers skip. Elmore Leonard

All the information you

All the information you need can be given in dialogue. Elmore Leonard

If you do not have an alert and curious interest in character and dramatic situation, if you have no visual imagination and are unable to distinguish between honest emotional reactions and sentimental approaches to life, you will never write a competent short story. Edward Joseph Harrington O’Brien

I have been successful

I have been successful probably because I have always realized that I knew nothing about writing and have merely tried to tell an interesting story entertainingly. Edgar Rice Burroughs