"Writing advise is just shit writers made up."
Chuck Wendig

"Remember you love writing. It wouldn't be worth it if you didn't. If the love fades, do what you need to and get it back.
Remember writing doesn't love you. It doesn't care. Nevertheless, it can behave with remarkable generosity. Speak well of it, encourage others, pass it on."
AL Kennedy

"Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400 pages and write just one page for each day, it helps. Then when it gets finished, you are always surprised."
John Steinbeck

"Avoid your weaknesses. But do this without telling yourself that the things you can't do aren't worth doing. Don't mask self-doubt with contempt."
Zadie Smith

“Ich schreibe nie über etwas anderes als über eigene Erfahrungen. Alle meine Personen sind Teile von mir, sozusagen abgespaltene Persönlichkeiten, die ich recht gut kenne. Kommt einmal eine mir wesensfremde Figur vor, versuche ich nie in sie einzudringen, sondern begnüge mich mit einer Beschreibung ihrer Erscheinung und ihrer Wirkung auf die Umwelt. – Ich bin der Ansicht, dass im weiteren Sinne alles, was ein Schriftsteller schreibt, autobiographisch ist."
Marlen Haushofer

In the planning stage of a book, don't plan the ending. It has to be earned by all that will go before it.
Rose Tremain

This is the value for me of writing books that children read. Children aren’t interested in your appalling self-consciousness. They want to know what happens next. They force you to tell a story.”
Philip Pullman

Every book is an argument with myself.
Patricia Highsmith

Usually, I have a lot of acquaintance with the story before I start writing it. When I didn’t have regular time to give to writing, stories would just be working in my head for so long that when I started to write I was deep into them.
Alice Munro

Finish the day's writing when you still want to continue.
Helen Dunmore