[I]f the writer does his job right, what he basically does is remind the reader of how smart the reader is.
Darkness is the womb from which a poet is born.
When the vision fills your brain and passion hits your gut, the need to write it down cannot be stifled. (Marti Melville)
Yes, it's hard to write, but it's harder not to.
Every true writer is like a bird; he repeats the same song, the same theme, all his life. For me, this theme as always been revolt.
Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to othe...
Inside of all of us there is the need and the desire to be heard, to have our innermost thoughts, feelings and desires expressed for others to hear, to see and to understand. We all want to matter to...
Writers have this schizophrenic ability to both participate in their lives and, at the same time, observe themselves participating in their lives.
Since language is the only tool with which writers can reflect and shape a culture, it must be transformed into art. Language is not a limitation on the art of literature; it is a glorification. It ha...
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.
Mice: But reading all the good writers might discourage you.Y.C.: Then you ought to be discouraged.
An artist is a sort of emotional or spiritual historian. His role is to make you realize the doom and glory of knowing who you are and what you are. He has to tell, because nobody else in the world
I believe the writer... should always be the final judge. I have always held to that position and have sometimes seen books hurt thereby but at least as often helped. The book belongs to the author.
Life cannot defeat a writer who is in love with writing - for life itself is a writer's love until death.
Begin with another's to end with your own.
Every word she writes is a lie including and and the.
I became a physicist to understand the world, then I became a writer to try and change it.
To call yourself an author takes publishing one book. To call yourself an inspirational author is the work of a lifetime that requires being constantly kicked in the stomach, only to get back up on yo...
You connect yourself to the viewer by by sharing something that is inside of you that connects with something inside of him. All you have as your guide is that you know what moves you.
A witer's mind is NEVER silent. It is always conducting the next symphony of words.