The writer must write what he has to say not speak it.
In Ireland a writer is looked upon as a failed conversationalist.
Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.
I am an Author a person that plays with words that dance in the minds of others
I don't know why anyone would be scared of a homeless person. The truly scary people are all the murder mystery writers. They spend all day thinking of the perfect plot on how to kill someone and get...
If writers stopped writing about what happened to them, then there would be a lot of empty pages.
There are more writers who read than readers who write.
We need to stop trying to get attention by seeing who can scream and cry the loudest. Write something worth reading and your voice will be heard.
Sentences spoken by writers, unless they have been written out first, rarely say what writers wish to say. Writers are unlucky speakers, by and large, which accounts for their being in a profession wh...
I write because in my books, I can experience those (mad and crazy) things that I won't be able to do in my real life
Writers really don't retire, you know. They have to be taken out and shot.
You know you are a writer when you talk about your characters as if they were real people!
As a writer one is allowed to have conversations with oneself. What is considered sane in writers is made for the rest of the human race.
An author is a person who can never take innocent pleasure in visiting a bookstore again. Say you go in and discover that there are no copies of your book on the shelves. You resent all the other book...
Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.
As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.
Dear Aspiring Writer, you are not ready. Stop. Put that finished story away and start another one. In a month, go back and look at the first story. RE-EDIT it. Then send it to a person you respect in...
Art manifests itself in paradoxical ways. At times it creates and at times it gets created!
The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.
He had a book to finish. Ten-thousand words. The other ninety thousand had been difficult. This last tenth seemed impossible. His plot had become derailed. He was unable to see his way through the smo...