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.
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...
The grace of writing is upon me.I love writing. I write daily.
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...