Writers don't suffer from insanity, they depend upon it!
Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.
So much of reading and writing to me is about being elsewhere, no matter how much I love where I am.
Just Because I Write About Horror, And The Supernatural, Etc...Doesn't Mean I Am A Monster Or A Bad Person.
The proverb, "Where there's a will.." sums it up for a writer who had just started in his writing life; for himself, the fictional characters and the audience of his works. It's a trinity of perspecti...
Those who generate fog are Wizards of Oz hoping desperately that nobody pulls the curtain to reveal a trembling little writer behind it. This seldom happens. Readers who dare to point out that incompr...
Speak in your own voice about the things that matter to you.
Love is the miracle of life.
Because I have an ideal to live up to. And I can't fall down in my own eyes!
The world is with you.
I have the heart of an artist and the soul of a writer.
With grace and beauty, feel.
Chaos is nothing more than beauty about to dance.
Saturday night is perfect for writers because other people have "plans.
Though the immediate impression of rebellion may obscure the fact, the task of authentic literature is nevertheless only conceivable in terms of a desire for fundamental communication with the reader.
I want you to tell all these people that I wanted more time to spend with them. Tell them I meant to, tell them I wanted to hear what they said and tell them what was on my mind.
i writebecauseit is the only wayi can reach you.
Zafar argues that the greatest influence on a writer may be on her psychic dispositions as a writer. Reading Philip Roth, writes Zafar, might clear the way of inhibitions that held you back from writi...
Everybody is Other in Maupin.
Death is almost never timely, even for the old.