The other day, when I was deciding where to place a mountain range, how to make a river's flow detour around underground stalactite caves, and what precise color to give the sky at sunset, I realized...

A true writer should be able to write about any color. It's the story they tell that should affect people, not the race.

There are a thousand things to hear about, informationally, daily, but the thing that doesn't go away is the one to pay attention to.

STRAUSS:Have you ever thought about putting those experiences into a book?RICHIE:I did decide to write about what i experienced in climbing to the top. And finally when I got there, I discovered what...

I say fuck the old advice 'show, don't tell.' It's called story TELLING for a reason, and I'll stick to it!

The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one... If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the Ode on a Grecian Urn is worth any num...

Rules such as "Write what you know," and "Show, don't tell," while doubtlessly grounded in good sense, can be ignored with impunity by any novelist nimble enough to get away with it. There is, in fact...

Everything is gestation and then bringing forth. To let each impression and each germ of feeling come to completion wholly in itself, in the dark, in the inexpressible, the unconscious, beyond the rea...

Creative work is often driven by pain. It may be that if you don't have something in the back of your head driving you nuts, you may not do anything. It's not a good arrangement. If I were God, I woul...

Remember the good hours when the words are flowing well. And never mind the bad hours there is no life without them.

I'm the first to admit that I don't write right. Now, relax and enjoy the show! The sideshow, that is.

There's always moral instruction whether the writer inserts it deliberately or not. The least effective moral instruction in fiction is that which is consciously inserted. Partly because it won't refl...

History, writing, infect after a time a man's sense of himself...

Nothing makes a person desire improvement like failure

As a writer, I demand the right to write any character in the world that I want to write. I demand the right to be them, I demand the right to think them and I demand the right to tell the truth as I...

Use all this life to make yourself a great writer, thoughtful and kind, slowly, surely over the years.

I almost always urge people to write in the first person. Writing is an act of ego and you might as well admit it.

Finally, I began to write about becoming an older woman and the trepidation it stirred. The small, telling "betrayals" of my body. The stalled, eerie stillness in my writing, accompanied by an ache fo...

It's a finger snapping kind of day.

It has been often said that writing is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration. In my experience, this is true. But, in my opinion, it is useless without that 1 percent. It's like an engine...