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.
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.
You are a writer when your overwhelming need to tell a story outweighs your fear of ridicule.
The purpose of a writer is to keep civilisation from destroying it
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...
Why would anybody be intimidated by mere words? I mean, neither I nor any other athiest that I know ever threatens violence. We never threaten to fly planes into skyscrapers. We never threaten suicide...
Writers live in the world to write the sacred words.
I'm a writer. I write checks. Mostly fiction.
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.
I write because there is a madness within me to express my thoughts in words. I write because I feel passionately about certain feelings and there is this yearning within me to express these feelings...
If you are a real writer, then just surrender to the writer's life, all of it, even the bad stuff. When you do that, the beauty appears: the peace, the meaning, the joy, the fulfillment, the sense tha...
A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.
If you wish to be a writer, write.
All writers should be put in a box and thrown in the sea.
You may think that you don't want to read about the problems of being brought up Mennonite, but the great thing about books is that you'll read anything a good writer wants you to read.