If insanity is defined as doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results - then success is insanity squared!(2012 SCBWI New Member Conference; Richmond, VA)
When the vision fills your brain and passion hits your gut, the need to write it down cannot be stifled. (Marti Melville)
And you must not worry about me. You must follow your dreams. You have your life ahead of you. I am just a wanderer passing by.
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Writers write because they're writers. Because their imaginations boil up inside of them, waiting to overflow into the written word. Ordinary people have little capacity for unyielding imagination, wh...
The best kind of day is a writing day
I believe that a writer is a person who writes. An author is a person who has written.
To me, quotes function as the sunscreen against a writers brilliance. As soon as I cannot stand to look at the magnificence of the acropolis of pure thought the writer managed to doll out in the cogni...
Once I was asked be a seatmate on a trans-Pacific flight....what instruction he should give his fifteen-year-old daughters, who wanted to be a writer. [I said], Tell your daughter three things. Tell h...
I realize that some of you may have come in hopes of hearing tips on how tobecome a professional writer. I say to you, If you really want to hurt yourparents, and you don't have the nerve to be a homo...
Definition of a Writer: One who tells stories that demand to be told.
If a book falls in the woods and nobody read it, was it ever written?
And then it dawned on me that the greatest love stories in the world never have happy endings.
Those who write are writers. Those who wait are waiters.
Young people ask why I became a writer, as if it were something I decided. I didn't decide; it grew on me like ivy.
I remember when I first began writing, I would spend maybe five or six hours on perhaps two paragraphs, and at the end of the day, not only were the paragraphs pretty terrible but I was also exhausted...
I was a poet. I had no expectations other than creating a world of art with words that would live on long after I was gone.
Everybody is born with a little bit of writer in them. We all come with the desire to work hard to see our creations come to life on the page. But it is those who choose to do something about this pas...
I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear Readers, are an afterthought.
To those that don't believe I'm worth more than what they think of other authors, to hell with them. Call me arrogant and call the police of politeness on me if you wish, because I won't stop until an...