If your looking to write a book, your creativity, originality and simplicity is what will distinguish you.
I think the first draft is so challenging because that elusive BALANCE is so challenging.
Poetic license is not a license to scribe recklessly.
There is a difference between fresh and weird. You never want to throw your reader out of the story. Keep it fresh but natural.
TODAY IS A GREAT DAY TO MAKE ART.
Writing is the act of discovery.
I learn from everything I do, right and wrong. I think it helps me grow as a writer and a person.
Dreams are there for those who dare to dream them.
Writers don't suffer from insanity, they depend upon it!
Writing is easy. Writing well is hard work.
A rain forest springs from the droppings of animals and grows greater than any cultivated garden; likewise, a great mass of literary skill springs from the droppings of writers that cross our minds th...
In reading we live hundreds lives, in writing we live thousands of lives.
You were meant to write this book.
Any time a beloved character is killed off, it affects the audience in a very powerful way, especially in a series.
Writing is about allowing yourself to become a vessel of creativity. Writers are avatars of creation. We have tender hearts, and strong emotions. It's hard not to when you have a million different peo...
I made a decision long ago not to make any apologies. Romance rocks, and even though my books don't actually fall into the romance genre, I tout them as very much being about the romance. It's fun. We...
Writing is a solitary endeavor, being an author is not.
To master magical realism, one must make the real seem unreal but, more importantly, make the unreal seem real.
Write what should not be forgotten.
I've been rejected a hundred times. It just takes that one person who totally believes in you!