There is a deeper, more profound reason for this craving for acceptance and glory. Put simply, it's because all writers are fat and/or ugly. And generally socially inept. Me being the notable exceptio...
Trust the tale, not the teller.
We do need to bring to our writing, over and over again, all the abundance we possess. To be able, to be ready, to enter into the minds and hearts of our own people, all of them, to comprehend them (u...
Think of Shakespeare and Melville and you think of thunder, lightning, wind. They all knew the joy of creating in large or small forms, on unlimited or restricted canvases. These are the children of t...
Ruth Cole was a novelist; novelists are not at their best when they go off half-cocked. She believed that she would prepare what she was going to tell the police - preferably in writing.
Part fact part fiction is what life is. And it is always a cover story. I wrote my way out.
Everything in art depends on execution: the story of a louse can be as beautiful as the story of Alexander. You must write according to your feelings, be sure those feelings are true, and let everythi...
Deserted libraries hold the shades of writers who worked within, and are haunted by their absence.
Authors, he thought. Even the sane ones are nuts.
Art is long and life is short.
The waste basket is a writer's best friend.
If you would be a reader read if a writer write.
Write something even if it's just a suicide note.
There is but one art to omit.
There is an accuracy that defeats itself by the overemphasis of details. I often say that one must permit oneself and quite advisedly and deliberately a certain margin of misstatement.
I can write better than anyone who can write faster and I can write faster than anyone who can write better.
No tears and the writer no tears and the reader.
Memoirs: the backstairs of history.
Many a fervid man writes books as cold and flat as graveyard stones.
Good writers can't die. Their words live on forever.