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Writing Advice

Notes on writing

Title	Author
Break any of these rules sooner than saying anything outright barbarous	Orwell, George
Characters do shocking things, not because the author wishes to shock, but because it is in the character of humans to misbehave	Cole, Teju
Continue to fail better—failure of a kind that might even be better than certain forms of success	Cole, Teju
Don't confuse honours with achievement	Smith, Zadie
If you don’t know how your story ends, don’t worry. Press on, in faith and hope	Mantel, Hilary
Never open a book with the weather.	Leonard, Elmore
Now some people will tell you that great writing cannot be learnt. Such people should be hit repeatedly on the nose until they promise not to talk nonsense any more	Forsyth, Mark
Read, observe, listen intensely! — as if your life depended upon it.	Oates, Joyce Carol
Treat writing as a job. Be disciplined	Waters, Sarah
When you break through, not everyone close to you will enjoy your success. Accept this	Mantel, Hilary
Work on a computer that is disconnected from the internet	Smith, Zadie
Write what you need to write, not what is currently popular or what you think will sell.	James, P.D.
Writing a book is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way	Doctorow, E. L.

Two subcategories at the moment

Could call them craft and productivity but I don't like the sound of that

How to get yourself writing, and
Tricks to use once you are

Potential other categories of
Editing
Publishing
But they're not necessarily sub categories writing, they're what happens after