(Writing) - the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair.
John the Baptist pretending to be Karl Marx.
Every writer without exception is a masochist a sadist a peeping Tom an exhibitionist a narcissist an injustice collector and a depressed person constantly haunted by fears of unproductivity.
Self-expression is for babies and seals where it can be charming. A writer's business is to affect the reader.
I suppose some editors are failed writers - but so are most writers.
Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself about himself.
For a dyed-in-the-wool author nothing is as dead as a book once it is written ... she is rather like a cat whose kittens have grown up. While they were a-growing she was passionately interested in the...
There should be two main objectives in ordinary prose writing: to convey a message and to include in it nothing that will distract the reader's attention or check his habitual pace of reading - he sho...
There is one last thing to remember: writers are always selling somebody out.
Make'em laugh make 'em cry make 'em wait.
A person that doesn't read and doesn't have any ethics complaining about a writer feels like a Chihuahua barking at a Rottweiler.
A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he is. When I speak of writing, the image that comes first to my mind is...
I have voices in my headI'm a slave to imaginary peopleI feel what they feelI experience what they experience I live in their world And I'm devoted to translating their storiesI'm not crazy, I'm a wri...
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...
A writer's pen depreciates with every word that it writes. Whereas she appreciates with every word that she writes.
Let me tell you one thing about why writers write: had I known the answer to any of these questions I would never have needed to write a novel
Authors are but the instrument to be played. The art is inside them, but many people help create it.
What a man Balzac would have been if he had known how to write.
He (Mario Vargas Llosa) looks grave, transported. And there, I think, is the personality that wrote the books: one in which a subversive comic sense and appetite for the ridiculous jostle with an inte...
To all you writers, artists, musicians, creative types who want to give up: It's okay to walk away for a bit. Get your second wind. But your writing, art, music will be there, lurking over your should...