I cannot in good conscience continue to use a platform that’s become a cesspool of bigotry. I’ll tweet again when it comes under adult management. Meantime, feel free to visit advicetowriters.com for a daily dose of writing advice.

You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts.
NIKKI GIOVANNI

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My advice to “up and coming writers” is, don’t write at first for anyone but yourself. It doesn’t matter how many or how few universities one goes to, what matters is what one learns, either at universities or by oneself.
T.S. ELIOT

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'It’s hard to achieve something truly wondrous unless you’re prepared to sit alone in a room for hours on end...'

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Raise hell – big time. I want y’all to get out there and raise hell about damned near everything. My word, there’s a world out there that needs fixing. Get out there and get after it.
MOLLY IVINS

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'What is boring in #fiction tends to be the hackneyed plots with all their tired old stage business, while the interesting stuff usually lies in what is called the exposition, meaning the #writing about whatever is not us...'

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You've got to find some way of saying it without saying it.
DUKE ELLINGTON

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' #Writing is rewriting. I hate the blank page. It scares me. But I love rewriting. I have to force myself to spew #words on the page – I call it the vomit draft – so I can clean it up later...'

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Never use an #adverb to modify the verb “said.”
ELMORE LEONARD

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I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.
STEVE MARTIN

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The disappointing truth is, I haven’t much method.
AGATHA CHRISTIE

There is no method except yourself.
HAROLD BLOOM

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'Neither intelligent apes nor dolphins whispering marvels in the ocean share with us the ability to transform this direct communication into the written word, which sets up an endless chain of communication...'

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You want to be a #writer ? A writer is someone who writes every day — so start #writing .
SHONDA RHIMES

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'Don’t say that as a boy your grandmother used to read to you, unless at that stage of her life she really was a boy, in which case you have probably thrown away a better intro...'

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Repeat the mantra: #Writing is when I make the words. #Editing is when I make them not shitty.
CHUCK WENDIG

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It is better to ask some of the questions than to know all the answers.
JAMES THURBER

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'You have to have the three D’s: drive, discipline and desire. If you’re missing any one of those three, you can have all the talent in the world, but it’s going to be really hard to get anything done...'

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When you’re an #art ist , nobody ever tells you or hits you with the magic wand of legitimacy. You have to hit your own head with your own handmade wand.
AMANDA PALMER

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In a time of destruction, create something. A poem. A parade. A community. A school. A vow. A moral principle. One peaceful moment.
MAXINE HONG KINGSTON

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Good editors are really the third eye. Cool. Dispassionate. They don’t love you or your work....
Part of the business of #editing is telling people to shut up.
TONI MORRISON

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