Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.
Time spent doing whatever it is you do to escape your daily life would be better spent acquiring a life that needs no escape.
The grace of writing is upon me.I love writing. I write daily.
Coffee, my delight of the morning; yoga, my delight of the noon. Then before nightfall, I run along the pleasant paths of the Jardin du Luxembourg. For when air cycles through the lungs, and the body...
If you can't write, read.If you can't read, walk.Or walk and read, then write.
Solitary walks are great for getting new ideas. It's like you're in a video game and you pick up idea coins on the way.
Life is a book. There are many pages to be written.
The books we read in childhood don't exist anymore; they sailed off with the wind, leaving bare skeletons behind. Whoever still has in him the memory and marrow of childhood should rewrite these books...
Don't just write a strong female protagonist. Be one.
I know, not everyone will like what I write, but writing is not about trying to please everybody.
When I told my teachers I wanted to be a writer, alot of them encouraged me to lower my expectations and to be more realistic. So I rode away on my magical, winged horse, spraying faerie dust behind m...