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.
You made a poet fall in love with the world.
We write not just to show off, not just to tell, or only to have written. We write to know ourselves.
When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I'm a grown up, they call me a writer.
The moment I realize I just stayed up until five in the morning writing is that moment I know I am meant to be a writer.
I write to believe in goodness.
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...
Some of the best characters are the most flawed characters.
There is no ceremony, no initiation ritual, no secret hand-shake. All you need to be a writer is to write.
Writers don't suffer from insanity, they depend upon it!
A writer writesregardless...even though...notwithstanding...despite...at any rate...anyhow...nevertheless...in the face of...undeterred by...heedless of...and because.The true writer simply continues...
Me to Comma: I will never get use to you wanting to butt your way into my sentences -- even if you're right.
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...
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.
I have always enjoyed my solitude. It gives me time to think and to write.
Anyone who says writing is easy isn't doing it right.
Those who are long on logic, definitions, abstractions, and formulas are frequently short on a sense of the concrete.
I should be writing ...
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...