Tell a story in lesser and simpler words.
What I've learned about writing is that sometimes less is more, while often more is grander. And both are true.
Sensitive people care when the world doesn't because we understand waiting to be rescued and no one shows up. We have rescued ourselves, so many times that we have become self taught in the art of com...
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...
Poems are invisible flowers on my skin.
Every exceptional writer holds a Master of Arts in Daydreaming.
Free time is a terrible thing to waste. Read a book.
A torpid heart in agony needs a pen to bleed
Film gives us a second chance at a first impression.
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....
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...
I'd represent "Love" when it sued hypocritical writers for abuse.
The show must go on, and so must The Book.
If certain aspect needs to be inconsistent, it must better be consistently inconsistent throughout the story.
That's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again.
When the last autumn of Dickens's life was over, he continued to work through his final winter and into spring. This is how all of us writers give away the days and years and decades of our lives in e...
Any man can grow a moustache and a beard! And this does not make him a man! What it takes to be a man is to help a needy person, stand up for the innocent, and lead one's life in the most courteous, d...
If there was any great lesson in life it was this: No battle was ever won with silence.
As writers we live life twice, like a cow that eats its food once and then regurgitates it to chew and digest it again. We have a second chance at biting into our experience and examining it. ...This...
My pen beats faster as I write with my heart