Love your story.
Q: I want to be an author when I grow up. Am I insane?"Neil Gaiman: "Yes. Growing up is highly overrated. Just be an au
I write to shed my sacred sorrows.
Writers need faith, or else we can never trust the action of our words!
The heart of a story gives it life.
The gift of knowledge is empowering, but the gift of wisdom is life-changing.
The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.
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.
Q: I want to be an author when I grow up. Am I insane?Neil Gaiman: Yes. Growing up is highly overrated. Just be an author.
If the historian will submit himself to his material instead of trying to impose himself on his material, then the material will ultimately speak to him and supply the answers.
I don't know where to start, one [writing student] will wail. Start with your childhood, I tell them. Plug your nose and jump in, and write down all your memories as truthfully as you can. Flannery O'...
A cliffhanger is when ...
A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.
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...
Perhaps as writers, we too should embrace the concept of wabi-sabi:
Writers begin with a grain of sand, and then create a beach.
One great pleasure of being a writer is possessing the power to determine the fate of my characters and how the story will end.
Writers are nothing more than borderline schizophrenics who are able to control the voices.
I find that is the best way to write during emotional scenes...put yourself and your emotions in every single word.-Nina Jean Slack
Two easy steps to be a good writer:1. Don't write what everyone is writing.2. Write what everyone is trying to write.