Nothing leaves a scar upon an Authors heart more than a book they've written with purpose going unread.
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...
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...
The only way you can write is by the light of the bridges burning behind you.
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
I want to question societal norms, encourage people to think in new ways.
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...
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...
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!
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...
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.
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.
You write what you know, and I know rock and roll.
No one can tell you what you can and cannot put in your book. So be brave and just write!
Words are the bones. Writing is the lungs. Reading is like breathing.
Writers are like supreme beings. We can create worlds in a matter of days and we can destroy them just as fast.