1- He works every day. No matter what you did the day before, get up and get down to work. Ernest Hemingway.
2-Burn the pedants at the stake. Do not accept fashions: create your own fashions. Do not settle for your old successes: reinvéntate in each new appearance.Vladimir Nabokov.
-3-Soon I learned that one must leave everything and write and do nothing but write. That one should write, write, write. Henry Miller.
4-I believe more in the scissors than in the pencil. Truman Capote.
5-The work is never that perfect work with which the artist dreams when beginning to write. William Faulkner.
6-The most valuable talent is never to use two words when with one is enough. Thomas Jefferson.
7-Uno debería aspirar no solo a ser entendible, sino a que sea imposible que se nos malentienda. Quintiliano.
8-If you want to be a writer you should do two things especially: read a lot and write a lot. Stephen King.
9-If you are writing dialogues, read them aloud. Only then can you check if it sounds like spoken words. John Steinbeck.
10-Anything that can be illustrated. Anything that might suggest the idea of being turned into a movie. Jorge Luis Borges.
11-Be sadistic. It does not matter how much you love your characters, make horrible things happen to them, so that the reader can see which folder they are made of. Kurt Vonnegu.
12-Never approach stories one by one, honestly, one can be writing the same story until the day of his death.Roberto Bolaño.
13- And finally a tip I received from one of the best writers I have read in my life, Mr. Charcles Bukowski sums it up in that poem:
My friends
This class
He lives with his mother.
That is kept by his alcoholic father
With red face and mosquito brain.
This one puts amphetamines and was maintained by
The same woman for 14 years.
He writes a novel every ten days
And at least pay the rent.
It goes from place to place
Sleeping on sofas, drinking and
Chattering.
He prints his books in a
photocopier.
He lives in the bathroom
Of an abandoned hotel in Hollywood.
He learned to get one scholarship after another,
Your life is a constant fill forms
This one is simply rich and lives in the best
Places and touches on the best doors.
He had breakfast with William Carlos
Williams.
And he teaches
And that teaches
And he knows how to make his texts
And speaks with a cruel and dominant voice.
There are everywhere,
They are all writers.
And almost every writer is a poet.
Poets, poets, poets, poets, poets, poets
Poets
Next time the phone rings
Will be a poet.
The next person at the door
Will be a poet.
He teaches
And that lives with mom
And that writes the life of
Ezra Pound.
Oh brothers, we are the most disgusting thing and we
Lowest of creation.
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