Today is the day that you create worlds, you change lives, you make a something, a someone, out of nothing.Today is the day you become a writer.
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 born, not created.
The stories are not made, they are discovered.
We create words, words create wonders.
Happy children do not seem to grow up to be writers.
The pen is mightier than the sword!
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...
You are your own best teacher. ~Jimmy Buffett
I was always aware that Jack loved women not only for their bodies but for the stories that came into being as they interacted with him--they were part of his road, the infinite range of experience th...
I write because I want express
So much of reading and writing to me is about being elsewhere, no matter how much I love where I am.
Writers need faith, or else we can never trust the action of our words!
With grace and beauty, feel.
The other six or seven drafts are going to be pure torture. So why not enjoy the first draft, in the hope that your joy will seek and find others in the world who, reading your story, will catch fire,...
Gay liberation did not create gay promiscuity. There was sex before there were marches, politics, or books – it was the best reason for being homosexual, it and love.
The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also his most difficult task.
Now memories have an unusual way of coming back to you in the middle of a day.
Every writer or wanna-be writer has ideas for books. The problem isn't finding an idea, it's choosing one
In keeping with my family's affection for doomed product lines and hexed formats, we purchased a Betamax. The year before, we'd bought a TRS-80 instead of an Apple II, and in due course we'd unbox Mat...