Writers Block? Get out and have fun. Love yourself. No use frowning and buying anti-wrinkle cream after.
Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere. While others who have something to say or who want to be effectual, lik...
A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.
Writers think in metaphors. Editors work in metaphors. A great reader reads in metaphors.All are continually asking, What does this represent? What does it stand for?They are trying to take everything...
God help me, he thought. God help all us poor wretches who could create and find we must lose our hearts for it because we cannot afford to spend our time at it. (Mad House)
For writers - even sportswriters - bad news is always easier than good, since it is, after all, more familiar.
She told herself. Also, she had made a promise to herself that she intended on keeping. She was never going to go out with another writer: no matter how charming, sensitive, inventive or fun they coul...
Writing is a solitary occupation. Family friends and society are the natural enemies of a writer. He must be alone uninterrupted and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.
His (the writer's) standard of fidelity to the truth should be so high that his invention out of his experience should produce a truer account than anything factual can be.
Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words a paragraph no unnecessary sentences for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no...
It is a sobering thought that each of us gives his hearers and his readers a chance to look into the inner working of his mind when he speaks or writes.
The expectation that TV women need to be more likeable than men is bullshit and in need of a change.
I suppose half the time Shakespeare just shoved down anything that came into his head.
One day, I shall explode like an artillery shell and all my bits will be found on the writing table.
Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having written.
To return to antiquity [in literature]: that has been done. To return to the Middle Ages: that too has been done. Remains the present day. But the ground is shaky: so where can you set the foundations...
In my experience, writers tend to be really good at the inside of their own heads and imaginary people, and a lot less good at the stuff going on outside, which means that quite often if you flirt wit...
A writer paradoxically seeks the truth and tells lies every step of the way. It's a lie if you make something up. But you make it up in the name of the truth, and then you give your heart to expressin...
At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution once revealed must seem to be inevitable.
A true writer does not seek wealth or fame does seek to find himself in each of his readers souls.