10th July 2016 | for Creatives | create for YOURSELF, artist integrity, writing, Ransom Riggs, feedback/criticism/rejection, break the rules |
"I always distrust overly specific writing advice. I don't agree with it, necessarily. When you're thinking about what to write or how to write something, it's too easy to make a lot of arbitrary rules for yourself. I think the difficult thing with learning how to write is not learning the style or rules, but figuring out what story you want to tell."
"I was discouraged very early in my college years by people who told me I wasn't a real writer because I didn't write every day. Things like that should not be said. And anybody who says anything to you like that, you have to ignore them. You know, there are no rules."
"I'm just trying to be honest, as honest as I can. If I were trying to write with the taste of the multitudes in mind, I'm afraid I'd never be able to finish anything."
"Write the poem you would never show anyone."
"Anyone who writes knows that the most complicated thing is the rendering of events and characters in such a way that they are not realistic but real. In order for this to happen it is necessary to believe in the story one is working on."
"Start telling the stories that only you can tell, because there'll always be better writers than you and there'll always be smarter writers than you. There will always be people who are much better at doing this or doing that—but you are the only you."
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