Lie naked on the table, and let them cut. Criticism is surgery, and humility is the anesthetic that allows you to tolerate it. In the end, the process will make you a stronger, more flexible, and trul...
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.
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...
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...
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...
The so called beautiful people, especially the ones who are obsessed with their looks, bore me. They just have this superficiality in all things that they do or want to accomplice in life. It is like...
When the vision fills your brain and passion hits your gut, the need to write it down cannot be stifled. (Marti Melville)
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...
If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.
The blank page, otherwise known as the vast playground of the writer's imagination.
If you see it in Strunk and White it's so.
Writing is easy. Writing is hard. It's a breeze and a struggle, just like life.
Fiction operates through the senses, and I think one reason that people find it so difficult to write stories is that they forget how much time and patience is required to convince through the senses....
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...
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...
If a book falls in the woods and nobody read it, was it ever written?
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.
I never understood, what a starving artist was until I became one.
...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...
Give the reader what they want, just not the way they expect it.
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