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1. I write to make my friends love me more. ——Gabriel Garcia Marquez

2. Never pursue writing better than others in terms of form. It doesn't matter if your writing is worse than others, what matters is that you write according to your own characteristics.

3. Writing a long novel from the beginning is a very clumsy way. It is precisely because of this that a lot of language garbage is produced in our country. Learning to write should start with short stories. Almost all the most outstanding writers in Western Europe and our country do this, because short stories use concise words, the materials are easy to arrange reasonably, the plot is clear, and the theme is clear.

4. The greatest wisdom lies in the simplicity of words. Proverbs and folk songs are always short, but the wisdom and emotion contained in them are enough to write a whole book. ——Gorky

5. Simplicity is the sister of talent.

6. The skill of writing is not actually the skill of writing, but... the skill of deleting poorly written parts.

7. For writers, writing less is as harmful as a doctor’s lack of opportunity to diagnose illnesses. ——Chekhov

8. A writer should be like God in the universe, existing everywhere and visible nowhere.

9. For what you want to express, you should observe it carefully for a long time, so that you can discover the characteristics that others have not discovered or written about. ——Flaubert

10. No matter what a writer wants to describe, there is only one noun for him to use, a verb to make the object vivid, and an adjective to make the nature of the object clear. Therefore, you have to search carefully until you find that noun, that verb, and that adjective.

11. Extraordinary passion can produce outstanding works. ——Flaubert

12. Being able to manipulate words freely, making them tell everything, even things that are generally difficult to express, and full of unfinished meanings, mysterious and unexpressed intentions. This is It's more difficult than using some dead old words. ...

13. The ingenuity of the layout of a work does not lie in its excitement or cuteness, nor in its fascinating beginning or thrilling ending, but in the credibility of the clear meaning of the work. A clever combination of little things. —— Maupassant

14. Real things are stranger than fictional stories; but this is because fictional stories must conform to possibilities, while real things do not have to take this into account. ——Mark Twain

15. If a writer cares about future generations, he will constantly purify his grammar without abandoning the characteristics that express his special personality in his spirit. Coining new words indiscriminately is just a poor way to remedy one's own imbecility. Wrong language can never express an idea, and style is like crystal, the purer it is, the brighter it becomes. ——Hugo

16. Only those who feel the most will have expressive writing styles. ——Pope

17. Only works that come from the depths of the soul can win laurels. ——Schopenhauer

18. Works are the essence of the soul. ——Schopenhauer

19. There is nothing more beautiful and intoxicating than writing quickly while immersed in the joy and passion of creation. ——Heise

20. In order to write well, one must fully grasp the subject matter and think enough about the subject matter in order to clearly see the levels of thoughts and form a coherent body and a continuum of thoughts. A constant chain. ——Bufeng

21. I wrote each paragraph four times: once to write down what I want to say, once to add what I missed, once to delete the unnecessary, and again It is to condense the full text into what I just thought of. ——Allingham

22. In order to make the theme vivid, a certain theme we take from daily life itself is often a "no order" and "no order" thing. . We take it apart, like children stacking blocks, and try to stack it up, take it apart, and try to stack it up again in another way. ——Takiji Kobayashi

23. Words should be just clothes that are carefully customized and suitable for thoughts.

——Renard

24. The author does not faithfully depict the events, but conveys the inner essence in his eyes to the audience. ——Elmer Rice

25. I can only write about what I have experienced, what I have thought and felt, what I have loved. In short, I write about my own life. , and things that grow with it. ——Goncharov

26. Writers should pay great attention to observing natural scenery and various events. What kind of sparkle would come from the ripples stirred by the early morning breeze? What does the sky look like? What's changed? Only one who has carefully observed these scenes can successfully describe countless such scenes. Imagination alone will not do. ——Premchand

27. Without the quality of emotion, no writing style can touch people's hearts. —— Diderot

28. Only works written emotionally can move people emotionally. ——S. Coleridge

29. For any work to be well written, it should...sing from the author's soul. ——Leo Tolstoy

30. This is true of all good works. They are not just simple sculptures or paintings. They hone their souls to make them consistent with external things, and then appropriately resurrect these in their works. Every stroke, every stroke, is to imprint your own heart in the work - Musha Koji Shiatushi

31. If you want to impress others, you must first be impressed yourself. Otherwise, no matter how skilled the work is, it will never have life. ——Jean-France Miller

32. Every work should be the fruit of passion and should be penetrated by passion. ——Belinsky

33. The artistic value and significance of a work are determined by the depth and social significance of its central idea. ——Zis

34. If a writer always keeps his eyes open, then he can also get the material for novels from the air. Excellent novel material can be obtained from many places such as on trains, boats, newspapers, and people's conversations. After several years of practice, observation will become natural, and your eyes will naturally choose useful things. ——Premchand

35. Writers should try their best to dig out things that are both interesting and educational from the ordinary. ——Dostoyevsky

36. It is easy to describe people; it is difficult to describe the human soul, because the soul should be expressed through the postures and movements of human body. ——Leonardo Da Vinci

37. A painter who is only satisfied with the resemblance to reality and sticks to trivial details will never be able to become a master. ——Rodin

38. I look for details everywhere in my life. If my works can be compared to a woven web of life, then the details are the nodes in the web. ——A. Tolstoy

39. Anyone who writes out all the details will fail. He must grasp some representative details. This is where the genius lies. ——Turgenev

40. If you want to write compactly, you must have an extremely complete and conclusive knowledge of the things you write about, and be able to write the most exciting and important things effortlessly. Pick them out without cluttering your creations. You need to know in detail to write concisely. ——Baustolsky

41. Choose adjectives like choosing gems and lovers. There is a danger in having too many adjectives. Just because a certain adjective has lightning-like display power, it doesn’t mean that ten adjectives can make a piece of news ten times more interesting. ——Stanley Walker

42. You must compress everything, compress it! By doing this, you can learn to be concise, clear, and powerful. ——Golky