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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. But here's some vastly more useful wisdom and advice from people who seriously know what the hell they're talking about.

1. Ernest Hemingway

2. Elmore Leonard

3. Anton Chekhov

4. Toni Morrison

5. George Orwell

6. E.L. Doctorow

7. Henry Miller

8. Elmore Leonard

9. John Steinbeck

10. Stephen King

11. Ralph Waldo Emerson

12. Neil Gaiman

13. Maya Angelou

14. James Patterson

15. Stephen King

16. Mark Twain

17. Toni Morrison

18. Edgar Allan Poe

19. John Steinbeck

20. Annie Dillard

21. Ray Bradbury

22. Saul Bellow

23. Erica Jong

24. Kurt Vonnegut

25. T.S. Eliot

26. Ernest Hemingway

27. Gertrude Stein

28. F. Scott Fitzgerald

29. Neil Gaiman

30. G.K. Chesterton

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