What doesn't kill us gives us something new to write about.
A good editor is like tinsel to a Christmas Tree...they add the perfect amount of sparkle without being gaudy.
It's not a job but a condition.(Alan Garner on writing)
Nobody can be more clownish, more clumsy and sententiously in bad taste than Herman Melville.
An authors publication date never matters, a book not read yet will always be New"...
If you fall in love with a character, then you are actually falling in love with the author that wrote the character. Therefore, you could conclude that if you are said author, you are in love with yo...
Thank God For Writing, As Now I Can Work Until My Last Breath!
We only pay for what we admire, want and recognize as necessary, even when a cup of coffee is priced at the same value of a book that can change our entire future.
Authors are supernatural beings. They exist in the world, also in worlds they create, and in the worlds of other authors they read.
Jack Kerouac died after throwing up blood. The malt liquor. Then that other guy who shot his wife in the head. Burroughs somebody. And I wonder about literary figures. They're all drunk and staggering...
A writer is simply one who writes words, Even if just 1 person reads it your work, or a 100, or 1million or 100,000 You are a writer.
In my imagination, the Editor meditated in a mountain-cave, espoused the rules of grammar, and frowned upon speculative fiction.
In writing, the point is not to manifest or exalt the act of writing, nor is it to pin a subject within language; it is, rather, a question of creating a space into which the writing subject constantl...
I don't remember ever signing up for weird. It just sort of happened.
Write until it becomes as natural as breathing, write until not writing makes you anxious.
No matter how good it is, your book will not sell itself.
I'm not just building a foundation or a house with the bricks people throw at me. I'm building entire worlds. it's called writing.
Start telling the stories that only you can tell. Because there will always be better writers than you, and there will always be smarter writers than you, and there will always be, you know, people wh...
Primary goal for the author: 'Write what you mean to say'Primary goal for the reader: 'Read what the author actually writes
There is probably no hell for authors in the next world--they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this one.
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