A $3 Cup of Coffee is Worth a Book.
I find that is the best way to write during emotional scenes...put yourself and your emotions in every single word.-Nina Jean Slack
Writers are nothing more than borderline schizophrenics who are able to control the voices.
An author really ought to have nothing but flowers in the room where he works.
If insanity is defined as doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results - then success is insanity squared!(2012 SCBWI New Member Conference; Richmond, VA)
What doesn't kill us gives us something new to write about.
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...
A good editor is like tinsel to a Christmas Tree...they add the perfect amount of sparkle without being gaudy.
We really learn only from those books that we cannot judge. The author of a book that we were able to judge would have to learn from us.
All raw, uncooked, protesting."(on Aldous Huxley)
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...
There's no such thing as 'no market'. Some books are just niche orientated that's all.
Fiction and non-fiction are only different techniques of story telling. For reasons I do not fully understand, fiction dances out of me. Non-fiction is wrenched out by the aching, broken world I wake...
I write because writing is power. Writing is creation. When you write, you are as a god, a deity wielding his pen like some Harry Potter staff, making whatever you want to happen, happen. By sheer for...
In my imagination, the Editor meditated in a mountain-cave, espoused the rules of grammar, and frowned upon speculative fiction.
No matter how good it is, your book will not sell itself.
Artist paint images unseen, musicians create sounds that emerge from silence, and authors write from a synthetic point of view about a world that can never exist.
Writing a complete novel is time consuming, frustrating, nerve wrecking, and most of the time your work is under valued, under appreciated, and taken for granted. So why do authors do it? Because not...
A writer or an author must always be the no.1 fan of his/her book.
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