Far and away the greatest menace to the writer—any writer, beginning or otherwise—is the reader. The reader is, after all, a kind of silent partner in this whole business of writing, and a work of fic...
The blank page, otherwise known as the vast playground of the writer's imagination.
Getting started on writing a book isn't as hard as it sounds. You don't need a plan and an outline. In fact, all you need are two things: time and one idea.
Poets, with no sponsors, no agenda, are the truest form of freedom today, bleeding out every drop of themselves for the world to either hate or devour.
Writers leave a trail of magic everywhere they go.
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...
All you have to do is put one word after another, and remember how great it feels to be a writer.
It kept coming back to joy-- how could I live a life filled with it? And always, the answer that came back to me was Write.... I am here because of the indigenous people of this country, because of th...
Why do writers write? Why do actors act? Why do painters paint? It doesn't pay much, unless you're very successful. It's who we are.
The main thing I try to do is write as clearly as I can. I rewrite a good deal to make it clear.
I have never known anything to be as exquisite or as excruciating as the Love-Hate relationship I have with writing.
We see and tell about the myriad truths of how the universe is and might be. That's what we writers DO.
Identifying as a writer is a matter of self-acceptance. It's not a thing that can be given to you, or bestowed upon you. You are a writer if you write. That's it. If what you are seeking is to be ackn...
Each morning the winds of the city moan and weep with lost souls clinging to hope of reliving the memories of yesterday.
The authentic human being is one of us who instinctively knows what he should not do, and, in addition, he will balk at doing it. He will refuse to do it, even if this brings down dread consequences t...
I think you are talented an passionate, Isabella. More than you think and less than you expect. But there are a lot of people with talent and passion, and many of them never get anywhere. This is only...
If you see it in Strunk and White it's so.
It's amazing what you find out about yourself when you write in the first person about someone very different from you.
A good story is one liked. A great story is one that challenges thought, defiant and gets mouths talking.
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.