People, fearing their own extinction, are willing to accept and perpetuate hand-me-down answers to the meaning of life and death; and, fearing a weakening of the tribal structures that sustain them, r...
I've probably put my 10,000 hours into writing, but I believe writing well is also greatly influenced by certain intangibles like mood and inspiration.
Stephen King and Clive Barker can make amazing works, such people's book should be on your list.
It is "vibration" that creates our world. Everyone vibrates. We always utter words in our mind. Thus we create sounds continuously. Frequency differs. Tuning your frequency brings the differences. A g...
Writers, like teeth, are divided into incisors and grinders.
The truth is, we don't have an easy language for emotional life. That's why we have writers.
Every sacred soul must walk and keep the way of God in the wilderness for years, to begin the sacred writings.
Women are like beautiful flowers. Only when you love them and take good care of them will they fully bloom into the beautiful flowers that they are.
The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. I know people who read without hearing the sentence sounds and they were the fastest readers. Eye readers we call them. They get the meaning b...
The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
The society to which we belong seems to be dying or is already dead. I don't mean to sound dramatic, but clearly the dark side is rising. Things could not have been more odd and frightening in the Mid...
Maybe everyone does have a novel in them, perhaps even a great one. I don't believe it, but for the purposes of this argument, let's say it's so. Only a few of us are going to be willing to break our...
It is necessary to write, that much is clear, and to write in a way quite unlike any way which I have employed before.
Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and writers alike discover things they never knew about the world and about themselves.
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims one turns as if it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms like a cuttl...
I have cultivated my hysteria with joy and terror.
Better to write for yourself and have no public than to write for the public and have no self.
Proper words in proper places make the true definition of a style.
I like prefaces. I read them. Sometimes I do not read any further.
I have only made this letter rather long because I have not had time to make it shorter.