Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.
The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one. He has a dream. It anguishes him so much he must get rid of it. He has no peace until then. Everythi...
It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write.
I suggest to my students that they write under a pseudonym for a week. That allows young men to write as women, and women as men. It allows them a lot of freedom they don't have ordinarily.
Writers don't suffer from insanity, they depend upon it!
The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.
A book is not completed till it's read.
I write fiction. It may have mystery, it may have horror, it may have fantasy, it may have love, but like life, it's all the same genre.
It's not what you lift, it's where you carry it.
I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer that is as I say demon-driven and wants to learn and has got to write, he don't know why, he will lear...
If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space.
Fruition-Think of writing as a harvest.You till the ground.Plant.Water.Wait.Apple trees take years to bear fruit.Harvest.Clean.Process.Then you have apple pie.
When you write a story you're telling yourself the story. When you rewrite your main job is taking out all the things that are NOT the story.
For me, all writing -- storytelling and style -- gets back to the Bible, Twain and Hemingway, and not in that order.
I'm not much of a believer in the so-called character study; I think that in the end, the story should always be the boss.
I write because I am a writer, not because I want to get anything out of it.
Any writer who puts his words and thoughts out into the public is going to be criticized.
When someone is mean to me, I just make them a victim in my next book.
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