Your only responsibility as a writer is to be true to the story that has chosen you as its writer.
Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious. When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring about the truth, you have the ability to throw the lights on for...
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.
Writing is a lonely job. Having someone who believes in you makes a lot if difference. They don't have to makes speeches. Just believing is usually enough.
The orator yields to the inspiration of a transient occasion, and speaks to the mob, before him, to those who can hear him; but the writer, whose more equable life is his crowd which inspire the orato...
My favourite piece of information is that Branwell Brontë, brother of Emily and Charlotte, died standing up leaning against a mantle piece, in order to prove it could be done.This is not quite true, i...
In the new style, homosexuals and heterosexuals could be equally unhappy, equally happy, and equally screwed up.
I have one word to say upon the subject of profound writers, who are grown very numerous of late; and I know very well the judicious world is resolved to list me in that number. I conceive therefore,...
A writer and nothing else: a man alone in a room with the English language trying to get human feelings right.
It has been said that writing comes more easily if you have something to say.
(Writing) - the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair.
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence whether a man be behind it or no.
We like that a sentence should read as if its author had he held a plough instead of a pen could have drawn a furrow deep and straight to the end.
Self-expression is for babies and seals where it can be charming. A writer's business is to affect the reader.
Every great and original writer in proportion as he is great and original must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished.
I am always at a loss to know how much to believe of my own stories.
Take care of the sense and the sounds will take of care themselves.
Writer's block: when your imaginary friends stop talking to you.
i didn't call myself a writer until everyone else did. i knew it was real then.