The act of putting pen to paper encourages pause for thought, this in turn makes us think more deeply about life, which helps us regain our equilibrium.
Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.
I live, love and loathe my characters. They stole my mind. They stole my heart.
I also know that not everyone will like what I do, and that there are many people who do love my work, and so I write for them, and for my own pleasure, and try not to brood too much over those who ha...
The only way you can write is by the light of the bridges burning behind you.
Fiction gives us a reach into the lives of individuals that would otherwise be but a closed door. If we are gifted with a desire to tell tales, then we should tell them . . . if only to reach but a fe...
Writing became such a process of discovery that I couldn't wait to get to work in the morning: I wanted to know what I was going to say. ~Sharon O'Brien
Furlough? He said.What? said the first hood irritably. Despereaux shuddered. His own brother was delivering him to the dungeon. His heart stopped beating and shrunk to a small, cold, disbelieving pebb...
I want to question societal norms, encourage people to think in new ways.
In quickness is truth. The more swiftly you write, the more honest you are. In hesitation is thought. In delay comes the effort for a style, instead of leaping upon truth which is the only style worth...
Set fire to cities and nations, to hearts and minds, to the very core of every human spirit. Make sure your words seep into the skin of the reader, leaving trace minerals that sustain the ailing human...
What do you do when your head - your imagination is filled with tales to last a hundred lifetimes?You focus on the really good ones!
When you have nothing left to lose, it's easy to dive deep into those deep, dark hidden places and write your truth. I'm there.
No one can tell you what you can and cannot put in your book. So be brave and just write!
Asking a writer why they like to write {in the theoretical sense of the question} is like asking a person why they breathe. For me, writing is a natural reflex to the beauty, the events, and the peopl...
There is a chest inside my heart, where a magical world is hidden. With my novels, I hand to you the key to that world.
For that is what you are, that is who you are – you are an author. You cannot cease to write any more than you can cease to breathe...This difficult season will pass – your eyes and mind will inevitab...
Words are the bones. Writing is the lungs. Reading is like breathing.
If you're doing it right... you should feel while you're doing it that you're revealing a little too much of yourself.
Writers are like supreme beings. We can create worlds in a matter of days and we can destroy them just as fast.