Writing is the high alchemy of the soul that combines words and ideas to create magic.
Listen to life, and you will hear the voice of life crying, Be!
I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear Readers, are an afterthought.
Poets and writers don't live either for money or for fame. And even without any recognition for their work they keep on writing!
I think writers are the most narcissistic people. Well, I musn't say this, I like many of them, a great many of my friends are writers.
To annoy or piss off are light offences. I'd say if you abuse the goodness of a novelist or a writer, the truth is, he or she can kill you multiple times or cannibalise you in many antagonist characte...
Writing like this is a little like milking a cow: the milk is so rich and delicious, and the cow is so glad you did it.
You can only write well ,what you have lived.
The characters in my novels are my own unrealised possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by them. Each one has crossed a border that I myself have circumvented.
Whores and writers, Mahound. We are the people you can't forgive.
There is only one thing that you write for yourself, and that is a shopping list.
Since language is the only tool with which writers can reflect and shape a culture, it must be transformed into art. Language is not a limitation on the art of literature; it is a glorification. It ha...
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.
Seventies macho was both a look – moustache, jeans, leather jacket – and an attitude – cool, heartless, virile – that were reactions against the old-style homosexuality of too much art and too much em...
Mice: But reading all the good writers might discourage you.Y.C.: Then you ought to be discouraged.
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 reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himse...
That's not writing that's typing.
If we try to envisage an 'average Canadian writer' we can see him living near a campus teaching at least part-time at university level mingling too much for his work's good with academics doing as...
Some writers may never create a work. Their purpose is to help others create their first word.