Your true power is not in your difference, but in your consistency of being different. The world will always adjust to consistency, yet struggle with change.
If you're frightened of the countless number of books in the library, you'll never write anything, until you close your eyes and hold the pen.
The grace of writing is upon me.I love writing. I write daily.
Some artists benefit less from being interviewed than they do from being left alone.
Free time is a terrible thing to waste. Read a book.
The viewpoint character in each story is usually someone trapped in a living nightmare, but this doesn't guarantee that we and the protagonist are at one. In fact Woolrich often makes us pull away fro...
What is your advice to young writers? Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes.
A hammer made of deadlines is the surest tool for crushing writer's block.
Sometimes it's better for a struggling writer to stay single, than to keep hearing, "Oh, your a writer, and you need to spend time in writing? Then go marry your writing!
As a writer, I like the list of "things to strive for" that Richard Yates kept above his typewriter:genuine claritygenuine feelingthe right wordthe exact English sentencethe eloquent detailthe rigorou...
The show must go on, and so must The Book.
Storytelling is a gift, but writing is a learned art.
Poems are invisible flowers on my skin.
Every exceptional writer holds a Master of Arts in Daydreaming.
I am no writer. Her sparkling eyes made my fingers write words in the sand, Her radiant smile made my pen write words in the air. Her beautiful soul made my typewriter type poems for eternity. I am no...
You can't be a good writer in the States anymore because to be a good one you have to have a country where you can be poor and still eat, and still make your living standard secondary to your writing....
Distraction is reading written word and when I seek to make distraction I write the words I wish to be enveloped in.
I still suspect that most people start out with some kind of ability to tell a story but that it gets lost along the way. Of course, the ability to create life with words is essentially a gift. If you...
Hollywood shines by virtue of light within.
How is Mrs. Rivers doing?' asked the agent, a very tall and large man, well-dressed, bald and depressing, with a manner of gliding into his office from a side door without perceptibly moving his feet...
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