'Nuf said

Y'all know I'm all about becoming a writer, and if you didn't know, well... now you know. I'm always looking for tips and advice for aspiring writers, because I'm determined to make writing my career. Today, while googling stuff (I google stuff a lot), I stumbled upon some tips from some of the greatest. I wanted to share some of them with you.

You're welcome.

The first draft of everything is shit.

-Ernest Hemingway

If you have any young friends, who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they're happy.

-Dorothy Parker

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

-Jack London

There are three rules to writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

-W. Somerset Maugham

If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time -or the tools- to write. Simple as that.

-Stephen King

If writing seems hard, it's because it is hard. It's one of the hardest things people do.

-William Zinsser

Write drunk, edit sober.

-Ernest Hemingway

Start telling the stories that only you can tell, because there will always be better writers than you, and there will 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. 

-Neil Gaiman

Don't take anyone's writing advice too seriously.

-Lev Grossman