I'm trying to give my character voice but he won't speak.
You resting your head tenderly on my shoulders while we sit below the old Oak tree. And we smile at each other and gaze lovingly at the fascinating sunset over the hills. This moment makes me feel com...
Pity the cat, thinks the writer, for I live as many lives as I can imagine.
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.
Even great, best selling writers produce works that fall flat from expectations. This writing thing isn't easy and everything you produce won't be a best seller, but you must write anyway. You have to...
Some of the best characters are the most flawed characters.
Working on it.
The blank page, otherwise known as the vast playground of the writer's imagination." J.L. Bond
Writing is what happens when the words in your head are overpowered by the words in your heart."J.L. Bond
The blank page, otherwise known as the vast playground of the writer's imagination.
One day someone will fall in love with you despite all your flaws! Then magic will happen in your life!
Writers write because they're writers. Because their imaginations boil up inside of them, waiting to overflow into the written word. Ordinary people have little capacity for unyielding imagination, wh...
It's an important thing and a necessary thing as a writer to always be reaching outside of yourself. They say write what you know. But what you know is rarely enough. You need to know more. But you've...
A writer or an author must always be the no.1 fan of his/her book.
Over the years I've come to realize that in a broad sense I'm interested in power and politics. I'm interested in how individuals try to eke out some wiggle room within these large institutions . . ....
Every writer has only one story to tell, and he has to find a way of telling it until the meaning becomes clearer and clearer, until the story becomes at once more narrow and larger, more and more pre...
Destroying the planet is like stepping from a moving train and thinking it will all work out.
There is no value in your promises. They are as hollow as fangs and poisonous as the venom within them once I allowed them into my heart.
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...
Write only if you wish to read it again and again...
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