Write something worth reading and your voice will be heard.
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.
I'm not a writer, I just express in words!
My mouth is not talking, my fingers are!
... And the only way to find that honesty is to not overthink it.For your writing to come alive--to be multi-dimensional--you must barter away some control.
Writing romantic fiction is the second chance that loved ones denied us.
One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?
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...
Be the CEO of your own career.
Nobody can be more clownish, more clumsy and sententiously in bad taste than Herman Melville.
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...
Stories choose us, not the other way around.
It is the writer's job to craft a story so compelling that strangers will pay to hear it.
Writers and other artists are mostly just historians, produced by nature to describe, decipher and thus historically represent the universe.
Sadly, there are writers who wouldn't know an umlaut from an omelet.
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.
Writer's block is when your imaginary friends won't talk to you.
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...
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.
You know you are a writer when you talk about your characters as if they were real people!