250 Things You Should Know About Writing Quotes

“Writers are made--forged, really, in a kiln of their own madness and insecurities--over the course of many, many moons. The writer you are when you begin is not the same as the writer you become.”
― Chuck Wendig, 250 Things You Should Know About Writing

“Gotta have a head like a wrecking ball, a spirit like one of them punching clown dummies that always weeble-wobbles back up to standing. This takes time. Stories need to find the right home, the right audience. Stick with it. Quitting is for sad pandas.”
― Chuck Wendig, 250 Things You Should Know About Writing

“Use the words that live inside your head. And if the words that live inside your head are those of a sentimental Victorian troubadour, then please close your head in a door jamb until you kill all that overwrought prose in an act of brain damage.”
― Chuck Wendig, 250 Things You Should Know About Writing

“Stories have the power to make people feel. To give a shit. To change their opinions. To change the world.”
― Chuck Wendig, 250 Things You Should Know About Writing

“Dialogue is a little bit jazz, a little bit hand-to-hand combat.”
― Chuck Wendig, 250 Things You Should Know About Writing

“The audience wants a safety blanket. It's the storyteller's job to take that safety blanket and choke them with it until they experience a profound narrative orgasm.”
― Chuck Wendig, 250 Things You Should Know About Writing

“Your first draft can and should look like a fucking warzone. That's okay. Don't sweat it, because you survived. Put differently, that first draft of yours has permission to suck. Go forth and care not.”
― Chuck Wendig, 250 Things You Should Know About Writing

“Plot is like Soylent Green: it's made of people.”
― Chuck Wendig, 250 Things You Should Know About Writing

“You wouldn't call yourself a runner if you quit every race your ran halfway through.”
― Chuck Wendig, 250 Things You Should Know About Writing

“Writers are made -- forged, really, in a kiln of their own madness and insecurities -- over the course of many, many moons.”
― Chuck Wendig, 250 Things You Should Know About Writing

“A storyteller makes us feel something. Makes us give a shit when we have no good reason to do so. Fun is not the last stop on the story train. The storyteller is master manipulator. The storyteller is cackling puppetmaster.”
― Chuck Wendig, 250 Things You Should Know About Writing

“Good story thrives on protagonists in pain.”
― Chuck Wendig, 250 Things You Should Know About Writing

“The beginning's easy because it's like -- BOOM, some shit just happened. The ending's easy because -- POW, all the shit that happened just lead to this.”
― Chuck Wendig, 250 Things You Should Know About Writing

“The writer is editor, marketer, blogger, reader, thinker, designer, publisher, public speaker, budget-maker, contract reader, trouble-shooter, coffee-hound, liver-pickler, shame-farmer, god, devil, gibbering protozoa.”
― Chuck Wendig, 250 Things You Should Know About Writing

“Put differently, harden the fuck up, soldier. (And beard the fuck on, while we're at it.)”
― Chuck Wendig, 250 Things You Should Know About Writing