Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
Authors are but the instrument to be played. The art is inside them, but many people help create it.
When you fall in love with a writer you will never die.
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...
I write because I want to inspire people and help them live a sorted life
A writer can never escape the labyrinth of words inside his mind.
People wrote me off but they did not realize that I was a writer.
It's a big world for the idiots. If you're a writer, there are not many cities where you can go and feel normal.
The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that perhaps, is what makes him different from others.
My people, we stay indoors. We have keyboards. We have darkness.
Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.
You are a writer when your overwhelming need to tell a story outweighs your fear of ridicule.
Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book -and does
Before publishers' blurbs were invented, authors had to make their reputations by writing.
There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius. They give us, in the guise of fiction, something equivalent to the actual density of the re...
Writers are in many ways like demi-gods. With one stroke of a pen they can give life to a character, or strike them from existence, with nary a twinge of grief at their passing.
People have many cruel expectations from writers. People expect novelists to live on a hill with three kids and a spouse, people expect children's story writers to never have sex, and people expect al...
There is something fascinatingly awkward about an author photo. I'm drawn to those glossy shots in the back of books, mostly because the subjects never look happy to be there.
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
What about his style? asked Dalgliesh who was beginning to think that his reading had been unnecessarily restricted.Turgid but grammatical. And, in these days, when every illiterate debutante thinks s...