I never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.
Writing is not life, but I think that sometimes it can be a way back to life.
We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.
There had never been a shortage of fools in the world
The soil of a man’s heart is stonier; a man grows what he can and tends it.
The scariest moment is always just before you start. After that, things can only get better.
The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn’t very interesting.
Explanations are such cheap poetry.
All right I think we've been down here in the dark long enough. There's a whole other world upstairs. Take my hand, Constant Reader, and I'll be happy to lead you back into the sunshine. I'm happy to...
If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.
If you fell outward to the limit of the universe, would you find a board fence and signs reading DEAD END? No. You might find something hard and rounded, as the chick must see the egg from the inside....
When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you’re done, you have to step back and look at the forest.
We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living.
She can't help it,' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard dog.
People with a high tolerance for boredom can get a lot of thinking done.
If there is love, smallpox scars are as pretty as dimples. I'll love your face no matter what it looks like. Because it's yours.
Description is what makes the reader a sensory participant in the story. Good description is a learned skill,one of the prime reasons you cannot succeed unless you read a lot and write a lot. It's not...
Calling it a simple schoolgirl crush was like saying a Rolls-Royce was a vehicle with four wheels, something like a hay-wagon. She did not giggle wildly and blush when she saw him, nor did she chalk h...
The sun had bled away every smell and left nothing.
Do you drink?""Of course,I just said I was a writer.