So much of reading and writing to me is about being elsewhere, no matter how much I love where I am.
Anyone who says writing is easy isn't doing it right.
Grammar, you're the pickiest noun I know.
Writing is a lonely business, which if allowed publicity and socializing it might deteriorate. Supportive people understand the need of a writer to withdraw to the solitude of oneself.
As so often happens in my strange writing process, after weeks of distraction; of not thinking about the book at all; yesterday I started writing before the sun was up, or coffee was made. Whipped out...
Writing, music, sculpting, painting, and prayer! These are the three things that are most closely related! Writers, musicians, sculptors, painters, and the faithful are the ones who make things out of...
You don't have to take it out on my typewrite ya' know. It's not the machine's fault that you can't write. It's a sin to do that to a good machine.
When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I'm a grown up, they call me a writer.
There is no ceremony, no initiation ritual, no secret hand-shake. All you need to be a writer is to write.
Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse.
Every writer or wanna-be writer has ideas for books. The problem isn't finding an idea, it's choosing one
There are times when I'm writing where time feels irrelevant. Those are the moments I know I'm creating magic.
When the vision fill yours mind and passio hits your gut, the need to write it down cannot be stifled.
Your eyes hold all the answers to my life's problems.
Writing isn't difficult. Writing well is difficult. What is most difficult is being with the interior experience that manifests as resistance to writing.
The only thing you really need to be a writer is time. Regular, consistent time, quality time when you're not tired. I write on the bus to and from work, that's my time, 1 or 2 hours every single day....
The proverb, "Where there's a will.." sums it up for a writer who had just started in his writing life; for himself, the fictional characters and the audience of his works. It's a trinity of perspecti...
To be a better cook, cook more. To be a better writer, read more.
Writers need faith, or else we can never trust the action of our words!
We have conversations with each other most nights - Sylvia Plath and me!