Art is long and life is short.
After all everybody, that is, everybody who writes is interested in living inside themselves in order to tell what is inside themselves. That is why writers have to have two countries, the one where t...
If you would be a reader read if a writer write.
Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself- it is the occurring which is difficult.
A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public with his pants down.
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.
Thought flies and words go on foot.
No tears and the writer no tears and the reader.
Trying to get an agent is like standing in line to be picked for kickball. Pick me! Pick me! ...Dang, last again.
Write only if you wish to read it again and again...
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...
Poetry creates the myth, the prose writer draws its portrait.
I think. I write. I am.
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.
Capote I truly loathed. The way you might loathe an animal. A filthy animal that has found its way into the house.
I don't need to write a memoir of my life. All you need to do is read one of my books. I'm there.
I write because I know magic happens
Writing which flows is more like play than work!
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.
As long as you write, you'll never be lonely.