Advice to young writers who want to get ahead without any annoying delays: don't write about Man write about a man.
I am the penny whistle of American literature.
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.
Write the ending first and then you'll know before the opening sentence that it's going to be a good book.
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)
A witer's mind is NEVER silent. It is always conducting the next symphony of words.
Books are the ultimate way for writers to reach immortality.
Letting go looks different for everyone, I think. Sometimes it's as simple as waking up one day and deciding not to let your past rule you. Other times it's a process; slow moving and painful, like tr...
If you are an artist, may no love of wealth or fame or admiration and no fear of blame or misunderstanding make you ever paint, with pen or brush, an ideal of external life otherwise than as you see i...
Writing is like scrambling up a hill on all fours; you arrive halfway up, and you are committed - you want to reach the summit, yet you must stop, to gather your strength and will. When you have climb...
I believe that a writer is a person who writes. An author is a person who has written.
The writer provides the text; the reader, the meaning.
A writer should feel deeply from his heart of the joys and sorrows of people. And he must write as honestly as possible. Then only can he claim to be a writer.
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.
It takes great courage to write great books. Find your courage and find your voice.
A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.
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.
Life is painful and disappointing. It is useless, therefore, to write new realistic novels. We generally know where we stand in relation to reality and don’t care to know any more.
I do not know what makes a writer, but it probably isn't happiness.