My best advice for writers is: Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly - all these make for great stories. Votes: 3
My advice for writers is to get a good day job. It takes the pressure off writing if you have a job that pays the bills. Votes: 3
Advice to beginning SF writers? Write a lot, finish what you write, and when it's done, keep sending it out for quite awhile. Votes: 1
When young writers approach me for advice, I remind them, as gently as I can, that they are on their own, with no help available anywhere. Which is how it should be. Votes: 1
When I was in middle school, the librarian there was secretary for a couple of groups of professional writers. She introduced me to Ray Bradbury and Richard Matheson, and I became very friendly with them over a period of two years. Both of them were very generous with their time, guidance and advice. Votes: 1
I have very specific advice for aspiring writers: go to New York. And if you can't go to New York, go to the place that represents New York to you, where the standards for writing are high, there are other people who share your dreams, and where you can talk, talk, talk about your interests. Votes: 1
When you catch an adjective, kill it - perhaps the best possible advice for budding writers. Votes: 0
Advice is like snow--the softer it falls, the deeper it goes. Votes: 6 Croft M. Pentz
Writers speak for those who are kept in silence Votes: 4 Isabel Allende