The first thing that distinguishes a writer is that he is most alive when alone.
There's a difference between writing for a living and writing forlife. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises....If you write for life, you'll work hard; you'll do what's honest,not...
Needless to say, the business of living interferes with the solitude so needed for any work of the imagination. Here's what Virginia Woolf said in her diary about the sticky issue: "I've shirked two p...
A writer's life is never boring when you have imaginary friends to play with!
There is no literature and art without paranoia. Probably there would be even civilization. Paranoia is the world. It is the attempt to make sense of what has not.
Capture your reader, let him not depart, from dull beginnings that refuse to start
A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out.
Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse.
Fictional characters are made of words, not flesh; they do not have free will, they do not exercise volition. They are easily born, and as easily killed off.
Why do I love writing YA? Because I get a chance to re-live my youth knowing all I know now...
I have never known anything to be as exquisite or as excruciating as the Love-Hate relationship I have with writing.
The main thing I try to do is write as clearly as I can. I rewrite a good deal to make it clear.
All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.
A writer or an author must always be the no.1 fan of his/her book.
But what is life without a passion?
Writers don't suffer from insanity, they depend upon it!
Now memories have an unusual way of coming back to you in the middle of a day.
Isolation is a gift. Everything else is just a test of your endurance. You will be alone with the Gods. Your nights will flame with fire.
Write only if you wish to read it again and again...
Why do I do it to myself? Why don't I get an ordinary job?
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