One great pleasure of being a writer is possessing the power to determine the fate of my characters and how the story will end.
Thoughts don't have time and space, one need to hold them. The one who succeeds at them becomes a writer.
The average buyer in bookshop spends 8 seconds on the front cover and 15 seconds on the back cover before deciding whether to purchase the book or not. On average, he does not get past page 18. See? T...
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...
Someone asked me, 'How do you write a book?' I said, 'I live with a pen in one hand.
Writing is easy: all you do is sit staring at the blank sheet of paper until the drops of blood form on your forehead.
Allen Ginsberg startled the audience at OutWrite, the gay literary conference, when he confessed he didn’t worry about AIDS since his sex life consisted chiefly of giving blowjobs to straight college...
She was strangely unaware that she could look and see freshly for herself, as she wrote, without primary regard for what had been said before.
The ancient commission of the writer has not changed. He is charged with exposing our many grievous faults and failures, with dredging up to the light our dark and dangerous dreams for the purpose of...
Upon the one thing every writer absolutely must have, and that is intellectual curiosity.
[Science fiction is] out in the mainstream now. You can tell by the way mainstream literary authors pillage SF while denying they're writing it!
The heart of a story gives it life.
Words have never belonged to those who wrote them. Always to those who needed then.
I find that is the best way to write during emotional scenes...put yourself and your emotions in every single word.-Nina Jean Slack
Speak in your own voice about the things that matter to you.
Being able to read well in public and talk about your work in an engaging fashion is part of most writers' job specification.
Writing the same kind of material is no guarantee you'll be working from the same ethos so that writers from different fields are just as likely to have an understanding of each other's work as someon...
An author really ought to have nothing but flowers in the room where he works.
If insanity is defined as doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results - then success is insanity squared!(2012 SCBWI New Member Conference; Richmond, VA)
What doesn't kill us gives us something new to write about.
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