I became a writer so that the voices inside my head would become an acceptable occurrence.
A day of rest yields a hundred days of progress.
Anytime I was denying my inner self, I knew absolutely nothing.
The problem with taxation is that authors can't write off whiskey as a business expense.
Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand, but tell it.
I didn't want to tell Mother I worked as a journalist. She thought I was a prostitute. Locking yourself in a room and inventing characters and conversations which do not exit is no way for a grown man...
I write because there are things in me that cannot die.
Hold on to your heart and life will give you wings.
Happiness is individualized. Don't box it in. Let it fly.
A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine -- Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is like wanting to meet a duck because you like pâté.
My horse is plodding down a path unspooling under her hooves like a ball of wool, only wider, while I think of ways to wake kings or small children or writers, all of whom seem to be constantly sleepi...
Me to characters: talk to me people.
I live within my daydreams and nightmares; through that, I have learned to create, and I never cease from doing so.
In the end, you have to make love to your story and see what happens.
Find the earth within.
Love is the way to happiness.
Love writes without words.
Speak from the heart and feel your tension melt away.
Artistes breathe and dream creativity!