Everyone who listens to the advice of famous writers can create a good work. In order to write a work that will have a wide range of readers, you need to have great practice and know the basics of writing army skills. This will help us advice of great writers who shared their "recipes" for writing a good book.
Ernest Hemingway
Although the writer said that arguing about his craft is a useless occupation, he still has some thoughts on this in his stories, interviews, letters and articles: First, you need talent, great talent. Such as in Kipling. Then self-discipline. Self-discipline of Flaubert. Then you need a clear idea of ??what kind of prose it can be, and you need to have a conscience as absolutely unchanged as the meter in Paris, in order to protect yourself from forgery. Then the writer needs intellect and unselfishness, and most importantly - the ability to survive. Try to find all this in one person, given that this person can overcome all those influences that gravitate over the writer. The most difficult for him - because there is so little time - is to survive and bring the work to completion. All good books are similar in that they are more believable than reality, and when you finish reading, it feels like everything described has happened to you, and then - that it belongs to you: good and evil, rapture, repentance, sorrow, people, places and even weather. If you can give all this to people, then you are a writer. The greatest gift of a good writer is the built-in stress-resistant hack-detector. This is a writer's radar, and he has all the good authors. All my life I looked at the words as if I had seen them for the first time.
Mark Twain
The author of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" was known as the author of ironic and sharp remarks, which will be useful to every novice writer: Use the word "fucking" every time you want to write "very". Your editor will delete it, and what you write will become as it should be. The best time to start writing an article is when you finished writing it for yourself. Only after that you will understand, clearly and logically, what you really want to say. Everyone has ideas. Not everyone has the ability to express an idea in a single paragraph where exactly one paragraph is needed, rather than written sheets of paper. Do not say: "The woman screamed." Bring her, and let her scream. Great books are judged according to the style and essence of the written, but not by their refined and emasculated grammar.
Ray Bradbury
In Bradbury's book "Zen in the Art of Writing", there are tips for creating your own style and strategy of behavior with publishers, as well as some moments from the biography of the author himself. "Zen ..." can truly be called a reference book of any novice figure in literature, because this work is imbued with incredible wisdom of life. The main secret of creativity is to treat your ideas as to cats - just make them follow you. Read those books that sharpen your perception of color, form and world scale.
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