All stories are the sin of their weaver.
Writing is something you Do and not discuss. Talk is cheap, wishes are free and a fool is included with every purchase. So spend your time wisely.
Gemeinsam aber ist allen Menschen, die des guten Willens sind, dieses: daß unsere Werke uns am Ende beschämen, daß wir immer wieder von vorn beginnen müssen, daß das Opfer immer neu gebracht werden mu...
Anecdotes don't make good stories. Dig down so far that what finally comes out is not even what you thought it was about.
For every writer, there is a challenge of time that is only magnified in the solitude of the work.
Writing is like daydreaming through your fingers.
She was strangely unaware that she could look and see freshly for herself, as she wrote, without primary regard for what had been said before.
Writers fly with imaginary wings.
The first problem of any kind of even limited success is the unshakable conviction that you are getting away with something, and that at any moment now they will discover you. It's Imposter Syndrome,...
Writing fiction is one of the greatest forms of empathy. It's not enough to simply write from the perspective of your characters...you have to feel what they feel.
You may be a poet and not even know it.
Writing is the high alchemy of the soul that combines words and ideas to create magic.
Giving these students, teenagers, any form of power over the use of their own words, allowing them to turn everyday raw material into some form of beauty, is a gift beyond measure.
Like Elmore Leonard and Donald Westlake and Robert B. Parker and oh so many others, I want to die with my boots on, facedown on my keyboard if possible, in the middle of a sentence.
To annoy or piss off are light offences. I'd say if you abuse the goodness of a novelist or a writer, the truth is, he or she can kill you multiple times or cannibalise you in many antagonist characte...
You gave me a soul touch. A touch beyond physical. The most powerful of touch. I thought it was about you but I was wrong it was about me. In me. It took me a lifetime to realize it was me, not you. T...
Só porque a criatividade é mística, não quer dizer que não deva ser desmistificada - especialmente se isso significa libertar os artistas das limitações de seus delírios de grandeza, de seu pânico e d...
Every kingdom has three pillars: Poet, Sword and Law.
People won't see Imagination in something that doesn't relate to their experience because of their own mental limitations. I want people to escape the expected and ordinary, to escape the regular expe...
I seek to take my audience on an emotional roller-coaster ride, a journey of laughter and tears and every sentiment in between.
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