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)
Everyone has a story to tell, so why not let me put it on paper!
Show me you care about our common tongue. Bring to your [writing] passion, deeply informed by knowledge of your subject. Stay me, not with apples and flagons, but with wit and grace, humor and intense...
A witer's mind is NEVER silent. It is always conducting the next symphony of words.
How do I get inspired? Life.
All we can do is write, but its up to the reader to decide if we wrote masterpieces or empty silliness, and there is nothing you can do till another reader says different.
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...
A hundred years ago, an average teenager knew countless authors, and, a sex position or two. Today, an average teenager knows countless sex positions, and, an author or two.
There's no such thing as 'no market'. Some books are just niche orientated that's all.
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If you like a book you read, tell someone. If you hate it, tell em harder.
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.
An author's job is to make you aware of your feelings while you continue to feel them.
Writers are like tricksters. Their words lure us to embark on journeys and unlock our emotions.
After writing, there is the letting go part. Perfection is a myth; as we all get better by day.Allow yourself to grow in active practice, release that book to the world, and do better with the next on...
i want to bleed ink and shit prose.
i want to never settle for anything less than my soul on paper.
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.
The best way of writing sex scenes is to do the first draft, orgasm, and then start editing. You can be objective post-orgasm.
Authors are supernatural beings. They exist in the world, also in worlds they create, and in the worlds of other authors they read.