Authors are sick people.

Writing is a lonely business, which if allowed publicity and socializing it might deteriorate. Supportive people understand the need of a writer to withdraw to the solitude of oneself.

He (Mario Vargas Llosa) looks grave, transported. And there, I think, is the personality that wrote the books: one in which a subversive comic sense and appetite for the ridiculous jostle with an inte...

Basically, writers write because they have something to say...Everyone has a story in them, writers merely decide to share it with the world...

my poetry is merely a body.you are the soul in my words.

With acting, you gotta wait until someone gives you a role in a play or movie. With writing, you're not dependent on others, you don't have to wait. You can sit down and just create.

All writers are different, each have their own artist way they go about telling a story. The only thing they have in common, is they write.

Those who generate fog are Wizards of Oz hoping desperately that nobody pulls the curtain to reveal a trembling little writer behind it. This seldom happens. Readers who dare to point out that incompr...

A writer is someone who analyses the society, people and the world around him or her. Simply a writer is someone who pays attention to the utmost simple things happening around him or her. I believe t...

Characters have to be seen and felt when written, not told about. Writers are merely vessels of their manifestations.

Literature is language charged with meaning

A hammer made of deadlines is the surest tool for crushing writer's block.

The best writers tend to look the roughest in photos. At least that's the excuse I use for why I look so bad in mine.

How do I get inspired? Life.

The best way of writing sex scenes is to do the first draft, orgasm, and then start editing. You can be objective post-orgasm.

You can't be a good writer in the States anymore because to be a good one you have to have a country where you can be poor and still eat, and still make your living standard secondary to your writing....

I hope for what I always hope for as a writer: a critical but kind reader. I think that is what we all hope for.

Dostoevsky was made by being sent to Siberia. Writers are forged in injustice as a sword is forged.

The swing between confronting the dangerous or brutal and the beautiful or the kind is one of the elements of being human that I have battled with all my life. That mixture of love and savagery is the...

When you fall in love with a writer you will never die.