30 Indispensable Writing Tips From Famous Authors

Writing is easy: All you have to do is start writing, finish writing, and make sure it’s good.

1. Ernest Hemingway

2. Elmore Leonard

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3. Anton Chekhov

4. Toni Morrison

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5. George Orwell

6. E.L. Doctorow

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7. Henry Miller

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8. Elmore Leonard

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9. John Steinbeck

10. Stephen King

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11. Ralph Waldo Emerson

12. Neil Gaiman

13. Maya Angelou

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14. James Patterson

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15. Stephen King

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16. Mark Twain

17. Toni Morrison

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18. Edgar Allan Poe

19. John Steinbeck

20. Annie Dillard

21. Ray Bradbury

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22. Saul Bellow

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23. Erica Jong

24. Kurt Vonnegut

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25. T.S. Eliot

26. Ernest Hemingway

27. Gertrude Stein

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28. F. Scott Fitzgerald

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29. Neil Gaiman

30. G.K. Chesterton

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