What we get when we turn pro is we find our power. We find our will and our voice and we find our self-respect. We become who we always were but had, until then, been afraid to embrace and live out.
If the wrong reader comes across the words, they will remain just words. But for the right readers, your vision blooms off the page and is absorbed into their minds like smoke, where it will re-form,...
Primary goal for the author: 'Write what you mean to say'Primary goal for the reader: 'Read what the author actually writes
Sadly, there are writers who wouldn't know an umlaut from an omelet.
Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind.
Nobody can be more clownish, more clumsy and sententiously in bad taste than Herman Melville.
I like to read books one after another. Immerse myself in a book, and then immerse myself in the next book, and just keep going until there aren't any more books left to swim in. That's why I hate whe...
To most, being locked away in solitary with nothing but pen and paper would prove a hard punishment. What a strange creature who views this as heaven.
Writers and other artists are mostly just historians, produced by nature to describe, decipher and thus historically represent the universe.
A writer is never just looking out of a window or staring into space. They are building a universe to share with the world
Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.
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...
I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your...
Writer's block is when your imaginary friends won't talk to you.
It is the writer's job to craft a story so compelling that strangers will pay to hear it.
Stephen King and Clive Barker can make amazing works, such people's book should be on your list.
One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?
I'm often asked which author I am most inspired by, but I'm inspired by all authors. It takes a great deal of courage to pour your onto paper and watch silently as the world judges it loudly.
I am an Author a person who plays with words so they can dance in the minds of others
Kerouac lacks discipline, intelligence, honesty and a sense of the novel. His rhythms are erratic, his sense of character is nil, and he is as pretentious as a rich whore, sentimental as a lollypop.