Just because I'm a writer doesn't mean that my personal experiences are embellished. Every life has a story.
Those who write are writers. Those who wait are waiters.
We only pay for what we admire, want and recognize as necessary, even when a cup of coffee is priced at the same value of a book that can change our entire future.
Woman, especially her sexuality, provides the object of endless commentary , description, supposition. But the result of all the telling only deepens the enigma and makes woman's erotic force somethin...
No writing is wasted. Did you know that sourdough from San Francisco is leavened partly by a bacteria called lactobacillus sanfrancisensis? It is native to the soil there, and does not do well elsewhe...
Every wound is a word.
This is the strange life of books that you enter along as a writer, mapping an unknown territory that arises as you travel. If you succeed in the voyage, others enter after, one at a time, also alone,...
One of the problems of being a storyteller is the cultivated ability to extrapolate; in every situation all the come to me.
Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method.— Walter Benjamin, Unpacking My Library
Books inspire a man to embrace the world or flee it. They start wars and end them. They make the men and women who write and publish them vast fortunes, and nearly as quickly can drive them into madne...
A memorandum is written to protect the writer - not to inform his reader.
Please never despise the translator. He's the mailman of human civilization.
Fundamentally all writing is about the same thing: it's about dying about the brief flicker of time we have here and the frustrations that it creates.
I work every day - or at least I force myself into office or room. I may get nothing done but you don't earn bonuses without putting in time. Nothing may come for three months but you don't earn the...
Last night I weaved dreams from the cobwebs of time!
Some writers may never create a work. Their purpose is to help others create their first word.
I am the penny whistle of American literature.
Poetry creates the myth, the prose writer draws its portrait.
Writers see the world differently. Every voice we hear, every face we see, every hand we touch could become story fabric.
Three words for a writer: Make me care.