Part fact part fiction is what life is. And it is always a cover story. I wrote my way out.
People disappear when they die. Their voice, their laughter, the warmth of their breath. Their flesh. Eventually their bones. All living memory of them ceases. This is both dreadful and natural. Yet f...
People, I have learned, have a way of taking root in one's still-developing mind without our knowing it, especially people, like [James] Baldwin, who live in the world of words.
Q: I want to be an author when I grow up. Am I insane?Neil Gaiman: Yes. Growing up is highly overrated. Just be an author.
Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.
Readers don’t work for writers. They work for themselves.
Ruth Cole was a novelist; novelists are not at their best when they go off half-cocked. She believed that she would prepare what she was going to tell the police - preferably in writing.
Seventies macho was both a look – moustache, jeans, leather jacket – and an attitude – cool, heartless, virile – that were reactions against the old-style homosexuality of too much art and too much em...
She knew full well that writers were sex-crazed bohemians who broke the rules and didn't go out to work.
She was strangely unaware that she could look and see freshly for herself, as she wrote, without primary regard for what had been said before.
Since language is the only tool with which writers can reflect and shape a culture, it must be transformed into art. Language is not a limitation on the art of literature; it is a glorification. It ha...
Sociologists say a neighbourhood is perceived as gay if anywhere between 15 to 25 percent of the residents are homosexual.
Stories have the ability to take us inside all kinds of life.
That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them
That was enough dialogue for a few pages - he had to get into some fast, red-hot action.
The ancient commission of the writer has not changed. He is charged with exposing our many grievous faults and failures, with dredging up to the light our dark and dangerous dreams for the purpose of...
The best life for a writer is the life which helps him write the best books he can.
The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.
The imagination doesn’t crop annually like a reliable fruit tree. The writer has to gather whatever’s there: sometimes too much, sometimes too little, sometimes nothing at all. And in the years of glu...
The lives great artists live and the books they write are two very different things.
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