Crime writers, I've noticed, can be jumpy. They live in a world where there are murderers on the loose and they haven't been caught yet!
If you have a story inside you but don't know where to start, look within and write from the heart, for the heart will never steer you wrong.
Asking a writer why they like to write {in the theoretical sense of the question} is like asking a person why they breathe. For me, writing is a natural reflex to the beauty, the events, and the peopl...
How do I get inspired? Life.
All we can do is write, but its up to the reader to decide if we wrote masterpieces or empty silliness, and there is nothing you can do till another reader says different.
By small and simple sentences, great books come to pass.
Writing is the high alchemy of the soul that combines words and ideas to create magic.
Listen to life, and you will hear the voice of life crying, Be!
Yeah, I know what your English Professor tried to tell you. But if your English Professor could make a living writing fiction, they would have been doing it.
I think writers are the most narcissistic people. Well, I musn't say this, I like many of them, a great many of my friends are writers.
The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature.
A hundred years ago, an average teenager knew countless authors, and, a sex position or two. Today, an average teenager knows countless sex positions, and, an author or two.
And you must not worry about me. You must follow your dreams. You have your life ahead of you. I am just a wanderer passing by.
There's no such thing as 'no market'. Some books are just niche orientated that's all.
Writing like this is a little like milking a cow: the milk is so rich and delicious, and the cow is so glad you did it.
I can still remember the miraculous feeling of writing a sentence, then more sentences, telling a story. The first thing I wrote was a one-page summary of Robinson Crusoe and I am so sorry I do not ha...
What really annoys me are the ones who write to say, I am doing your book for my final examinations and could you please tell me what the meaning of it is. I find it just so staggering--that you're su...
Every word I write is like a drop of my blood. If it's flowed passionately and long, I need time to recover from the emotion spent before I begin a new story. My characters are aspects of my life. I h...
The pen is mightier than the sword!
Writers will happen in the best of families.