{"id":13328,"date":"2013-05-17T03:20:49","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T03:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2013\/05\/17\/amandaonwriting-15-writers-the-best-writing\/"},"modified":"2018-12-05T00:02:34","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T00:02:34","slug":"amandaonwriting-15-writers-the-best-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2013\/05\/17\/amandaonwriting-15-writers-the-best-writing\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-13328 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2013\/05\/17\/amandaonwriting-15-writers-the-best-writing\/attachment\/13329\/#main'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/tumblr_mdla34cxBm1rnvzfwo1_250-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/tumblr_mdla34cxBm1rnvzfwo1_250-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/tumblr_mdla34cxBm1rnvzfwo1_250-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/amandaonwriting.tumblr.com\/post\/36269484929\">amandaonwriting<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>15 Writers &#8211; The Best Writing Advice They Received<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Alice Kahn<\/strong>: The best writing advice I\u2019ve ever heard: Don\u2019t write like you went to college.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Andrei Codrescu<\/strong>: Best advice I ever got was from the Romanian poet Nichita Stanescu, who told me in Bucharest, before I emigrated: \u2018Learn English. French is dead.\u2019<\/li>\n<li><strong>Christopher Buckley<\/strong>: The best advice on writing I\u2019ve ever received was from William Zinsser: \u2018Be grateful for every word you can cut.\u2019<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cynthia Ozick<\/strong>: The best advice on writing I\u2019ve ever received is: Write with authority.<\/li>\n<li><strong>David Guterson<\/strong>: The best advice on writing I\u2019ve ever received is to take it seriously, because to do it well is all-consuming.<\/li>\n<li><strong>George Plimpton<\/strong>: I think the best advice on writing I\u2019ve received was from John Steinbeck, who suggested that one way to get around writer\u2019s block (which I was suffering hideously at the time) was to pretend to be writing to an aunt, or a girlfriend. I did this, writing to an actress friend I knew, Jean Seberg. The editors of Harpers forgot to take off the salutation and that\u2019s how the article begins in the magazine: Dear Jean\u2026.<\/li>\n<li><strong>James Atlas<\/strong>: The best advice on writing I\u2019ve ever received was from Dwight Macdonald: \u2018Everything about the same subject in the same place.\u2019<\/li>\n<li><strong>Margaret Carlson<\/strong>: Best writing advice I\u2019ve ever received: Sell everything three times.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nick Tosches<\/strong>: The best advice on writing I\u2019ve ever received was given to me, like so much else, by Hubert Selby, Jr.: to learn and to know that writing is not an act of the self, except perhaps as exorcism; that, in writing what is worth being written, one serves, as vessel and voice, a power greater than vessel and voice.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Patsy Garlan<\/strong>: The best advice on writing I\u2019ve ever received is: Don\u2019t answer the phone.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Peter Mayle<\/strong>: Best advice on writing I\u2019ve ever received: Finish.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Richard Ford<\/strong>: The best advice on writing I\u2019ve ever received: \u2018Don\u2019t have children.\u2019 I gave it to myself.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Robert Lipsyte<\/strong>: The best advice on writing I\u2019ve ever received was, \u2018Rewrite it!\u2019 A lot of editors said that. They were all right. Writing is really rewriting\u2014making the story better, clearer, truer.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Russell Banks<\/strong>: The best advice on writing I\u2019ve ever received was probably something Ted Solotaroff told me years ago when he was my editor. Going over a manuscript line by line again and again he kept reminding me, \u2018Remember, this is your book, not my book. You\u2019re the one who\u2019s going to have to live with it the rest of your life. I might publish 30 or 40 books this year, you\u2019re only going to publish one, and probably the only one you\u2019re going to publish in two or three years.\u2019<\/li>\n<li><strong>Whitney Balliett<\/strong>: The best advice on writing I\u2019ve ever received is, \u2018Knock \u2018em dead with that lead sentence.\u2019<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/writerswrite.posterous.com\/the-best-writing-advice-these-writers-receive\">Writers Write<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>amandaonwriting: 15 Writers &#8211; The Best Writing Advice They Received Alice Kahn: The best writing advice I\u2019ve ever heard: Don\u2019t write like you went to college. Andrei Codrescu: Best advice I ever got was from the Romanian poet Nichita Stanescu, who told me in Bucharest, before I emigrated: \u2018Learn English. French is dead.\u2019 Christopher Buckley: &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2013\/05\/17\/amandaonwriting-15-writers-the-best-writing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-gallery","without-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13330,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13328\/revisions\/13330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}