Music shouldn't be just a tune, it should be a touch.
In the very end, all we have left to atone for our faults are words.
Turn those deep feelings and obsessions of your heart into captivating pieces of literature.
Cliches are the viruses that infect your writing with diseases.
She might not have read many books. But when she reads a book, she swallows the very words. If you open the books on her shelves, you will find that the front and back covers encase white pages.
Power up your intelligence. Hit that creativity button.
Action is the mother of creation.
Create a world in front of your readers where they can taste, smell, touch, hear, see, and move. Else they are likely going to move on to another book.
If you write then you are reborn because by writing about the moment, you can relive it for a second time.
A writer can do without food for a few hours, but not without the sight of books.
Be a good reader first, if you wish to become a good writer.
Create. Not for the money. Not for the fame. Not for the recognition. But for the pure joy of creating something and sharing it.
As you become a better writer, the writing becomes more difficult. You toil harder to tell a story in a lesser number of words.
Ideas either age like fine wine or rot like potatoes over time.
Dreams are good at playing with your memory. They love leaving no trace behind and hate to show up once again in the morning.
At one time I thought the most important thing was talent. I think now that — the young man or the young woman must possess or teach himself, train himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and t...
A writer gets to live yet another life every time she creates a new story.
Tell a story in lesser and simpler words.
If certain aspect needs to be inconsistent, it must better be consistently inconsistent throughout the story.
See the world anew and write down the bones of it.