If you criticize what you’re doing too early you’ll never write the first line.[
In writing there is art - and in art there is craft ...
Writing is like daydreaming through your fingers.
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,...
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...
Writers fly with imaginary wings.
All stories are the sin of their weaver.
Writing is the high alchemy of the soul that combines words and ideas to create magic.
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...
Anecdotes don't make good stories. Dig down so far that what finally comes out is not even what you thought it was about.
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.
Does any program really improve anybody, as much as simply identifying them? And, after identifying them, not ruining them?
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.
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...
I find it quite intriguing that the one observing me as different, immediately assumes that there's something wrong with me, but never, not even for one instant, questions the possibility of the oppos...
Every kingdom has three pillars: Poet, Sword and Law.
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.
I seek to take my audience on an emotional roller-coaster ride, a journey of laughter and tears and every sentiment in between.
I often said that writers are of two types.There is the architect, which is one type. The architect, as if designing a building, lays out the entire novel at a time. He knows how many rooms there will...
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.
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