The good news, when you write with another, is that you never have an empty page in front of you. The bad news is... you never have an empty page in front of you.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about.
When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.
Ever since I began to compose, I have remained true to my starting principle: not to write a page because no matter what public, or what pretty girl wanted it to be thus or thus; but to write solely as I myself thought best, and as it gave me pleasure.
I can always write. Sometimes, to be sure, what I write is crap, but it's words on the page and therefore it is something to work with.
I write in a pretty straightforward way. I kind of sit down at page one and start writing.
The hardest thing about writing, for me, is facing the blank page.
You write alone, but you write hoping that there will be readers who will connect with what you write, and it's so wonderful and amazing - I can't even tell you - when that actually happens.
One of the humbling things about having written more than one novel is the sense that every time you begin, that new empty page does not know who you are.
Spend more time working before you write page one. Then, the story - at least parts of it - will feel as though it is writing itself.
You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.