Socially interacting with a storyteller can be a frustrating challenge because a portion of her awareness is constantly sorting through the details of a developing book. And while you may successfully...
When authors write from personal experiences,straight from the heart,it touches the readers. Their work speaks out to all who read it,and most of the time,people can relate to what was written. I have...
People like me write because otherwise we are pretty inarticulate. Our articulation is our writing.
A village explainer. Excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not."(on Ezra Pound)
Blessed are the ones who offer coffee to writers, for they will get all the rewards mentioned in the Bible, the Quran, the Vedas, the Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita.
I wanted to be a politician and a movie star. But I was born a writer. If you're born that, you can't change it. You're going to do it whether you want to or not.
Writers, like teeth, are divided into incisors and grinders.
The best tool in a writer's arsenal is a reader's imagination.
Life has a vendetta against writers. It does everything in it's power to get in the way of our craft. Maybe it thinks we embellish too much?
Don't let yourself be amazed by the imagination of a writer and his words, writers are almost all the time in a love-hate relationship with words.
He wastes his time over his writing, trying to accomplish what geniuses and rare men with college educations sometimes accomplish.
You cannot write unless you write much.
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...
I often said that writers are of two types.There is the architect, which is one type. The architect, as if designing a building, lays out the entire novel at a time. He knows how many rooms there will...
As a young child I wanted to be a writer because writers were rich and famous. They lounged around Singapore and Rangoon smoking opium in a yellow pongee silk suit. They sniffed cocaine in Mayfair and...
An unhappy childhood was not) an unsuitable preparation for my future, in that it demanded a constant wariness, the habit of observation, and the attendance on moods and tempers; the noting of discrep...
A good writer is basically a story-teller not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
Now as through this world I ramble I see lots of funny men Some rob you with a six gun Some with a fountain pen.
How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
I am what libraries and librarians have made me with a little assistance from a professor of Greek and a few poets.