If we loved Steve Aylett, really loved him in the way that he deserves, a selfless love that genuinely wanted nothing save his happiness and comfort, we'd lobotomise him.
The best tool in a writer's arsenal is a reader's imagination.
Writers don't just create pages in a novel, but depth to worlds that become a safe haven for those who wish to escape the reality of their own.
I will always know the glory of the beautiful and rare, as they will know security from labour and prayer. As they will hear the laughter of the children they gave life, I will know the torments of th...
Writing romantic fiction is the second chance that loved ones denied us.
The purpose of a writer is to keep civilisation from destroying itself.", September 14, 1958)
The job of a writer is not to convey emotion but to invoke it.
You are lucky to be one of those people who wishes to build sand castles with words, who is willing to create a place where your imagination can wander. We build this place with the sand of memories;...
There was, in my view, an unwritten contract with the reader that the writer must honour. No single element of an imagined world or any of its characters should be allowed to dissolve on an authorial...
Should a writer have a social purpose? Any honest writer is bound to become a critic of the society he lives in, and sometimes, like Mark Twain or Kurt Vonnegut or Leo Tolstoy or Francois Rabelais, a...
Business or profession?''I guess you'd call me a writer.'No profession,' said the police car, as if talking to itself. The light held him fixed, like a museum specimen, needle thrust through chest.
Art requires a delicate adjustment of the outer and inner worlds in such a way that, without changing their nature, they can be seen through each other.
Words and sentences are subjects of revision paragraphs and whole compositions are subjects of prevision.
I conceive that the right way to write a story for boys is to write so that it will not only interest boys but strongly interest any man who has ever been a boy. That immensely enlarges the audience.
They're fancy talkers about themselves writers. If I had to give young writers advice I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
As for style of writing if one has anything to say it drops from him simply and directly as a stone falls to the ground.
Footnotes the little dogs yapping at the heels of the text.
We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.
The beginning is easy what happens next is much harder.
Writers aren't exactly people they're a whole lot of people trying to be one person.