Writers are like tricksters. Their words lure us to embark on journeys and unlock our emotions.
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...
Every true writer is like a bird; he repeats the same song, the same theme, all his life. For me, this theme as always been revolt.
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...
If you wish to be a writer, write.
Writers of fiction embellish reality almost without knowing it.
Writers have this schizophrenic ability to both participate in their lives and, at the same time, observe themselves participating in their lives.
Upon the one thing every writer absolutely must have, and that is intellectual curiosity.
There was no point in doing art if you were going to be second-rate.
There are certain common privileges of a writer, the benefit whereof Ihope there will be no reason to doubt; particularly, that where I am notunderstood, it shall be concluded that something very usef...
Sociologists say a neighbourhood is perceived as gay if anywhere between 15 to 25 percent of the residents are homosexual.
One of the problems of being a storyteller is the cultivated ability to extrapolate; in every situation all the come to me.
Once I was asked be a seatmate on a trans-Pacific flight....what instruction he should give his fifteen-year-old daughters, who wanted to be a writer. [I said], Tell your daughter three things. Tell h...
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.
Det var nästan som att upptäcka en författare man inte läst, fast man stöter i och för sig hela tiden på författare som man inte har läst medan det är mycket sällsynt, åtminstone i vuxen ålder, att ma...
All writers are insane!
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...
Life cannot defeat a writer who is in love with writing - for life itself is a writer's love until death.
Writers leave a trail of magic everywhere they go.
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.