Indispensable Writing Tips From Famous Authors

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Literary Birthday - 30 September

Happy Birthday, Truman Capote, born 30 September 1924, died 25 August 1984

10 Intriguing Truman Capote Quotes On Writing

1. To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.
2. A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That’s why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.
3. You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say. 
4. Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it. 
5. All literature is gossip
6. Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.
7. Since each story presents its own technical problems, obviously one can’t generalize about them on a two-times-two-equals-four basis. Finding the right form for your story is simply to realize the most natural way of telling the story. 
8. All writing, all art, is an act of faith. 
9. My preferred pastimes are conversation, reading, travel and writing, in that order.
10. It’s a very excruciating life facing that blank piece of paper every day and having to reach up somewhere into the clouds and bring something down out of them.

Truman Capote was an American author, whose short stories, novels, plays, and non-fiction are recognized literary classics, including the novella Breakfast at Tiffany’s and the true crime novel In Cold Blood.
At least 20 films and television dramas have been produced from Capote novels, stories and screenplays.

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Literary Birthday - 25 September 

Happy Birthday, William Faulkner, born 25 September 1897, died 6 July 1962

The Best 10 William Faulkner Quotes On Writing

1. The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
2. If a story is in you, it has to come out.
3. Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other. 
4. In writing, you must kill all your darlings.
5. Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
6. The artist doesn’t have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don’t have the time to read reviews.
7. A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others. 
8. The writer’s only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one. He has a dream. Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency, security, happiness, all, to get the book written. If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the Ode on a Grecian Urn is worth any number of old ladies. 
9. My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky. 
10. Read, read, read. Read everything— trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out the window. 

William Faulkner was an American writer and Nobel Prize laureate. Faulkner is one of the most important writers of Southern literature in the United States. He was awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature. A Fable (1954) and his last novel The Reivers (1962), won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

by Amanda Patterson

Love ya, Will. A Rose For Miss Emily is one of my favorites. :)