You haven't seen yourself until you look through the eyes of your characters.
I think there are two types of writers, the architects and the gardeners. The architects plan everything ahead of time, like an architect building a house. They know how many rooms are going to be in...
When entering a library, I never forget to bow down!
What is your advice to young writers? Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes.
I'm not a writer. Ernest Hemingway was a writer. I just have a vivid imagination and type 90 WPM.
I hope I don't write TOO many books! When I look at authors who have written too many books, I wonder to myself "When did they live?" I certainly want to write BECAUSE I live! I know I don't want to w...
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 worst part of writing is meeting all these great new characters and having no one to talk about (the adventures you share with) them.
You cannot write your character until you know how he or she thinks, until you know what their philosophy is in the world that they occupy.
A hammer made of deadlines is the surest tool for crushing writer's block.
And as your writing evolves, what you need and get from it evolves.