If a writer writes something that he or she has never experienced, I think the reader can sense right away that it is garbage. The only thing that can replace experience, though, is imagination; howev...
I believe you can consider yourself a successful prose writer when the number of words you put on a page each day is equal to, or greater than, the number of milligrams of mind-altering chemicals you...
Some of the best characters are the most flawed characters.
Grab a pen and your turf will have no limits.
Writing is lonely. Until that moment you write your first character and suddenly you have company.
It wasn't until I started writing that I found a whole new appreciation for reading.
The moment I realize I just stayed up until five in the morning writing is that moment I know I am meant to be a writer.
Everybody is born with a little bit of writer in them. We all come with the desire to work hard to see our creations come to life on the page. But it is those who choose to do something about this pas...
Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.
The Throes of Poetry - Hymns formed from groans of acquaintance, its rhythm weaving between tranquility, compassions, and peril - like bare feet stomping on broken glass - bleeds, recoils, then steps...
As long you are still living, you can achieve far more than you could ever imagined
Writers write because they're writers. Because their imaginations boil up inside of them, waiting to overflow into the written word. Ordinary people have little capacity for unyielding imagination, wh...
you don't have to be great to get started but you have to to get started to be great
Writers get ideas all day every day. The FedEx guy delivers a package from Sears and the writer is thinking how it could actually be a ticking time bomb.
You connect yourself to the viewer by by sharing something that is inside of you that connects with something inside of him. All you have as your guide is that you know what moves you.
Basically, writers write because they have something to say...Everyone has a story in them, writers merely decide to share it with the world...
An idea for a story can be anything. The sky is not the limit, the limit is beyond it.
A love of writing is far greater than any word count.
One does not travel, any more than one falls in love, to collect material. It is simply part of one's life...
Remember: Bad timing equals great plot twists.
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