Show me the contract.
I'm in love with writing, but sometimes I swear it hates me.
I believe you can consider yourself a successful prose writer when the number of words you put on a page each day is equal to, or greater than, the number of milligrams of mind-altering chemicals you...
Plot comes from the mind but the characters come from the heart!
As a writer: Aim toward becoming keen through a looking glass limn perspective on evoking pleasure of the senses with STRONG VERBS.
You don't have to take it out on my typewrite ya' know. It's not the machine's fault that you can't write. It's a sin to do that to a good machine.
The power of the delete key.
Sometimes the writing just comes and we're like, oh yeah. Gotta love when that happens.
Fiction is a careful combination of observation, inspiration, and imagination.
You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.
They say, poetry is dead. I say, was there ever a time they had a clue of what the state of poetry is?
Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
There are times when I'm writing where time feels irrelevant. Those are the moments I know I'm creating magic.
If I write as well as I golf, I'm in trouble!
Write on!
Rejection. Rejection. You can't handle rejection!
Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse.
When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and it is cool or cold and you come to your work and warm as you writ...
I love Edit. He gives me tons of second chances to make things just right between us.
Grammar, you're the pickiest noun I know.