Writers are a product of where we come from but by looking at alternatives to the culture in which we live, we can find ways to change and hopefully improve it.
A witer's mind is NEVER silent. It is always conducting the next symphony of words.
I wear the writer pants in the family.
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.
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...
Trying to get an agent is like standing in line to be picked for kickball. Pick me! Pick me! ...Dang, last again.
You cannot write in the chimney with charcoal.
Flaubert had infinite correction to perform.
A work of art doesn’t need to provide complete answers in order to succeed. It needs only to excite us into asking questions and give us a place to think about them while we become involved in other p...
No one says a novel has to be one thing. It can be anything it wants to be, a vaudeville show, the six o’clock news, the mumblings of wild men saddled by demons.
Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method.— Walter Benjamin, Unpacking My Library
Penicillin was as liberating for gay sex as the pill had been for straight sex.
She was not a writer herself but she was a very good reader, passionate and eclectic in her tastes, and my father had great faith in her judgments.
The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.
The short story, I should point out, is perforce a labor of love in today's literary world; there's precious little economic incentive to write one...
There was no point in doing art if you were going to be second-rate.
Writers of fiction embellish reality almost without knowing it.
You are your own best teacher. ~Jimmy Buffett
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 will happen in the best of families.
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