A story is a part of the writer's soul, told to the world.
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.
When I consider writing I sometimes wonder why doesn't everybody do it, other times I wonder why does anybody do it.
Last night I weaved dreams from the cobwebs of time!
If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.
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...
We all have a place within us, that would like to rewrite the way our life was written out for us....That's why people want to become authors.
Writing is what happens when the words in your head are overpowered by the words in your heart.
Writing is a solitary occupation, except for Presidential speeches and sitcoms.
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...
Never chase people in your life. No one is worthier than you to be chased.
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.
He would write and write. He would make wonderful things happen. Some of it would be true. All of it would be true. Most of it would be true.
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 admire the person who can write it right off. Mencken once said that a person who thinks clearly can write well. But I don't think clearly--too many thoughts bump into one another. Trains of thought...
...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...
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...
Three words for a writer: Make me care.
If a book falls in the woods and nobody read it, was it ever written?
I began writing late; my first articles and stories were published after I was thirty, and I was motivated by money. Money is not a bad motivation. The need to eat keeps us from laziness, and the fact...