Tanela Hicks Quote

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...

What is your advice to young writers? Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes.

When entering a library, I never forget to bow down!

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...

At one time I thought the most important thing was talent. I think now that — the young man or the young woman must possess or teach himself, train himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and t...

A hammer made of deadlines is the surest tool for crushing writer's block.

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...

Developing your voice takes... time and practice.

I'm not a writer. Ernest Hemingway was a writer. I just have a vivid imagination and type 90 WPM.

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.