The characters within a book were, from a certain point of view, identical on some fundamental level ‒ there weren't any images of them, no physical tangibility whatsoever. They were pictures in the r...
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...
Apparently, now, though, we writers and artists are not allowed to give offence. We must not question, criticise or insult the other, for fear of being hounded and murdered. These days a writer withou...
An obsessed reader figured that ‘Armistead Maupin’ was an anagram for ‘is a man I dreamt up’.
I am what libraries and librarians have made me with a little assistance from a professor of Greek and a few poets.
When my journal appears many statues must come down.
you don't have to be great to get started but you have to to get started to be great
Writing isn't only about a completed piece of work. It's about the writer you're becoming while writing.
Write only if you wish to read it again and again...
My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.
I write about romance and passion to savour love twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
Understand now, I'm purely a fiction writer and do not profess to be an earnest student of political science, but I believe strongly that such a law as one prohibiting liquor is foolish, and all the w...
Writer does nothing,But think deeply.
A village explainer. Excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not."(on Ezra Pound)
She lives the poetry she cannot write
If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.
Most people think that making a living from books is fun or joyful, but there's much more to it than what the eyes can see, and I wish I had more time for more profitable and also joyful activities.
Writers are born, not created.
Write, what you feel about. Feel, what you have written about.
Why do you think you are always right?" Asks a dumb person that can't understand why I make a living as a self-help author or why she is wasting my time and I will never speak to her ever again.