Oh, how scary and wonderful it is that words can change our lives simply by being next to each other.
Cliches are the viruses that infect your writing with diseases.
Turn those deep feelings and obsessions of your heart into captivating pieces of literature.
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.
Be a good reader first, if you wish to become a good writer.
As you become a better writer, the writing becomes more difficult. You toil harder to tell a story in a lesser number of words.
A writer can do without food for a few hours, but not without the sight of books.
I write one page of masterpiece to ninety-one pages of shit. I try to put the shit in the wastebasket.
Ideas either age like fine wine or rot like potatoes over time.
A writer gets to live yet another life every time she creates a new story.
Tell a story in lesser and simpler words.
Dreams are good at playing with your memory. They love leaving no trace behind and hate to show up once again in the morning.
I learn my world through writing.
Almost every single thing you hope publication will do for you is a fantasy, a hologram--it's the eagle on your credit card that only seems to soar.
Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it.
As you write your novel, you gradually start thinking like some of your characters in it. And at times the writer may lose himself completely in some character.
Actually, writers have no business writing about their own works. They either wax conceited, saying things like: 'My brilliance is possibly most apparent in my dazzling short story, The Cookiepants Hy...
Your sensitivity, your tenderness, your eyes make me pick up my pen and write, Mrignayni!
There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine -- Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is like wanting to meet a duck because you like pâté.
I think the best thing about being a writer is getting to dream. It's constantly viewing life through the "what if?" lens.
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