Writing is about taking everyday observations, things which people see almost every day of their lives, and yet bringing it to their attention for the very first time.
We, and I think I'm speaking for many writers, don't know what it is that sometimes comes to make our books alive. All we can do is write dutifully and day after day, every day, giving our work the ve...
Love is the miracle of life.
Doubt: How can I know? Truth: How can you not?
If you are an artist, may no love of wealth or fame or admiration and no fear of blame or misunderstanding make you ever paint, with pen or brush, an ideal of external life otherwise than as you see i...
Writing is like daydreaming through your fingers.
The mortality rate of literary friendships is high. Writers tend to be bad risks as friends ~ probably for much the same reasons that they are bad matrimonial risks. They expend the best parts of them...
I write romance and passion to savour love twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
A cliffhanger is when ...
Everybody is Other in Maupin.
People, I have learned, have a way of taking root in one's still-developing mind without our knowing it, especially people, like [James] Baldwin, who live in the world of words.
We have a rich literature. But sometimes it’s a literature too ready to be neutralized, to be incorporated into the ambient noise. This is why we need the writer in opposition, the novelist who writes...
Why does the writer write? The writer writes to serve — hopelessly he writes in the hope that he might serve — not himself and not others, but that great cold elemental grace which knows us.
The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.
We need writers who fear nothing. ("Our Goal")
World War I was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise lied, So the writers either wrote propaganda, shut up, or fought.
Beauty is a heart with wings.
We create words, words create wonders.
we write every day, we fight every day, we think and scheme and dream a little dream every day. manuscripts pile up in the kitchen sink, run-on sentences dangle around our necks. we plant purple prose...
[I]f the writer does his job right, what he basically does is remind the reader of how smart the reader is.
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