People have many cruel expectations from writers. People expect novelists to live on a hill with three kids and a spouse, people expect children's story writers to never have sex, and people expect al...
Writing is about taking everyday observations, things which people see almost every day of their lives, and yet bringing it to their attention for the very first time.
We writers constantly try to build up our own confidence by getting published, making sales, winning prizes, joining cliques or proclaiming theories. The passion to write constantly strips this vanity...
I believe that a writer is a person who writes. An author is a person who has written.
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...
A man who writes a story is forced to put into it the best of his knowledge and the best of his feeling. The discipline of the written word punishes stupidity and dishonesty. A writer lives in awe of...
We see and tell about the myriad truths of how the universe is and might be. That's what we writers DO.
Even great, best selling writers produce works that fall flat from expectations. This writing thing isn't easy and everything you produce won't be a best seller, but you must write anyway. You have to...
You can be a writer who doesn't read everyday. But you're not fooling anyone. It shows, rather embarrassingly, in your work.
I should be writing ...
...I have this one nasty habit. Makes me hard to live with. I write......writing is antisocial. It's as solitary as masturbation. Disturb a writer when he is in the throes of creation and he is likely...
It's a terrible mistake to let the perfect get in the way of the good. If you wait to publish until you have written a great book, you will never publish anything. Great books happen by chance, not by...
Just me, my music, and the voices in my head.
Pity the cat, thinks the writer, for I live as many lives as I can imagine.
There is no ceremony, no initiation ritual, no secret hand-shake. All you need to be a writer is to write.
Writers are like actors too. For every story we create, we must get under the skin of the characters and role play with our writing.
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...
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...
She cured me of my sadness.
You made a poet fall in love with the world.
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