Contrary to popular belief, people always say "It was a pleasure doing business with you". It is the only thing that has stayed with me after an assignment. Always mix business with pleasure. That is...
Writing novels is the hardest thing I've ever done, including digging irrigation ditches.
You cannot be a great writer in a shop where words are sold in tens and twenties.
Writing's in the nouns.
Does any program really improve anybody, as much as simply identifying them? And, after identifying them, not ruining them?
Life has a vendetta against writers. It does everything in it's power to get in the way of our craft. Maybe it thinks we embellish too much?
Find the problem, find the story.
You can swap the message around, and whatever the particular norm is, or whatever the particular message is, when you put your pet-peeve message before story, odds are you are going to bore the shit o...
I recommend writing standing up from time to time. It's easier to dance when you finish writing.
A writer's problem does not change. He himself changes and the world he lives in changes but his problem remains the same. It is always how to write truly and, having found what is true, to project it...
Nothing is wasted when you are a writer. The stuff that doesn't work has to be written to make way for the stuff that might; often you need to take the long way around. And if you're writing memoir yo...
Write, what you feel about. Feel, what you have written about.
If you're a writer, write. And always strive for excellence.
I never waited for my Irish Cream coffee to be the right temperature, with a storm happening outside and my fireplace crackling ... I wrote every day, at home, in the office, whether I felt like it or...
It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.
Poems are small moments of enlightenment
If you start to revise before you've reached the end, you're likely to begin dawdling with the revisions and putting off the difficult task of writing.
People are suckers for the truth and they know it when they see it. Open your soul and they will stop and watch.
There will be pages. Lots and lots of pages. Most of the pages will have letters on them, and a vast majority of these letters will be in the Roman alphabet.
Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil. J.Paul Getty