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...
Grab a pen and your turf will have no limits.
Writing's in the nouns.
Some of the best characters are the most flawed characters.
True authors don't write for fame or to make a name or money, they write to make impact
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.
As long you are still living, you can achieve far more than you could ever imagined
Writing is lonely. Until that moment you write your first character and suddenly you have company.
When in doubt, go the scandalous route.
A love of writing is far greater than any word count.
Remember: Bad timing equals great plot twists.
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.
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...
It wasn't until I started writing that I found a whole new appreciation for reading.
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...
One does not travel, any more than one falls in love, to collect material. It is simply part of one's life...
Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.
you don't have to be great to get started but you have to to get started to be great
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...
Not all writers are silently suffering inside. But it certainly helps.