Did they know that Arthur Conan Doyle went on to investigate mysteries in his real life and absolved a man for a crime for which he has been convicted? Did they know how Agatha Christie brilliantly st...
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...
Sadly, there are writers who wouldn't know an umlaut from an omelet.
Writers and other artists are mostly just historians, produced by nature to describe, decipher and thus historically represent the universe.
It is the writer's job to craft a story so compelling that strangers will pay to hear it.
Don't be 'a writer.' Be writing.
Nobody can be more clownish, more clumsy and sententiously in bad taste than Herman Melville.
An idea is a gift, a finished project is turning that gift into a book by making yourself write even when you don't want to. There is no such thing as a block of time to write. You have to carve time...
Writer's block is when your imaginary friends won't talk to you.
One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?
The finder of his theme will be at no loss for words.
Writing romantic fiction is the second chance that loved ones denied us.
As individuals, great writers from Villon to Diderot to Voltaire toRousseau to Byron or Shelley have often shown themselves to beirresponsible, selfish, mean or sometimes even cowardly people. Their l...
You know you are a writer when you talk about your characters as if they were real people!
I'm not a writer, I just express in words!
Stephen King and Clive Barker can make amazing works, such people's book should be on your list.
We need to stop trying to get attention by seeing who can scream and cry the loudest. Write something worth reading and your voice will be heard.
He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary."(on Ernest Hemingway
I've always said "Writer's Block" is a myth. There is no such thing as writer's block, only writers trying to force something that isn't ready yet. Sometimes I don't write for weeks. And then all of t...
Be the CEO of your own career.
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