The more you leave out, the more you highlight what you leave in.
Every day, live in a way that honors who you are.
I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I just try to warn people who hope to get published that publication is not all it is cracked up to be. But writing is. Writing h...
Yet while Vidal writes best about power, politics, and history White’s strengths are sex, art and – sometimes – love. Each tends to stumble when he enters the other’s domain.
Fiction is entertaining. Nonfiction is epic.
Time unfolds beauty, wonder, and mystery to reveal the auspicious tapestry of life.
Characters have to be seen and felt when written, not told about. Writers are merely vessels of their manifestations.
Rocks and minerals: the oldest storytellers.
You are lovelier than all the roses in the world.
Get out of your comfort zone and go for it. I do this when I apply for lead acting parts in feature movies.
Everyone writes with hand, but very few can write with heart
Some of my greatest successes in business are simply the result of taking huge, calculated risks.
Kind words change the world.
It can pay off, being a hack. Given the depraved state of American culture, a slick dude can make millions being a hack. But even if you succeed, you lose, because you've sold out your Muse, and your...
When reading a book, you are sold what some writer thought. When reading a newspaper, you are sold what someone did, and, what some advertiser made.
A film that is a true work of art transcends theatre and heartwarmingly changes lives.
The preliminaries were out of the way, the creative process was about to begin. The creative process, that mystic life force, that splurge out of which has come the Venus de Milo, the Mona Lisa, the F...
I know, not everyone will like what I write, but writing is not about trying to please everybody.
Toni Morrison said, The function of freedom is to free someone else, and if you are no longer wracked or in bondage to a person or a way of life, tell your story. Risk freeing someone else. Not everyo...
Unless a writer is extremely old when he dies, in which case he has probably become a neglected institution, his death must always be seen as untimely. This is because a real writer is always shifting...