Most people don't read books, but when they do, mine are the first, and that's enough for me.
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.
An author really ought to have nothing but flowers in the room where he works.
I hope for what I always hope for as a writer: a critical but kind reader. I think that is what we all hope for.
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...
[Science fiction is] out in the mainstream now. You can tell by the way mainstream literary authors pillage SF while denying they're writing it!
Let your passion bleed through your work. No one cares how much you know until they know how much you care.
People always try to make self-published authors feel insignificant. I have more respect for self-published authors, because I know the adversity they faced. They didn't just write a manuscript, query...
I believe almost every author have gone through the terribly uncomfortable period between the time of shedding the seeds of a story and waiting to see it flourish as a published book, spending hours w...
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.
An authors publication date never matters, a book not read yet will always be New"...
In my imagination, the Editor meditated in a mountain-cave, espoused the rules of grammar, and frowned upon speculative fiction.
A $3 Cup of Coffee is Worth a Book.
Thank God For Writing, As Now I Can Work Until My Last Breath!
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...
All raw, uncooked, protesting."(on Aldous Huxley)
A writer or an author must always be the no.1 fan of his/her book.
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...
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...
No matter how good it is, your book will not sell itself.