It is infinitely easier to experience an indescribable experience than to describe it.
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.
Behind every novel is a greater story of how it came to be published.
Write them all down. The mistakes and the blessings and the places you cracked in two. Write the prayers and the tantrums. The sacred and the profane. The open roads and the closed doors. Nothing is p...
The secret of being a successful writer is--write. Every writer deserves that chance.
What doesn't kill us gives us something new to write about.
I'm writing. The pages are starting to stack up. My morale is improving the more I feel like a writer.
When a writer dies, he becomes his books.
I mean, what you say about how you write your books? What I mean is, first you've got to think of something, and then when you've thought of it you've got to force yourself to sit down and write it....
Anecdotes don't make good stories. Dig down so far that what finally comes out is not even what you thought it was about.
Lyrics paved my teenage route to loving words. I take those passionate mini-stories with me everywhere.
Sleepless nights, infinite random thoughts, Remembering those moments, he had much to say, an urge to talk to someone, to be cared, to be loved, to be understood !! She was gone by now, And he was los...
Confession: I don't want to be one of my characters. I'm mean to them sometimes. Really mean.
I like what I do. Some writers have said in print that they hated writing and it was just a chore and a burden. I certainly don't feel that way about it. Sometimes it's difficult. You know, you always...
The awful part of the writing game is that you can never be sure the stuff is any good.
The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less; time is ample and its passage sweet.
Your first draft is a petulant teenager, sure it knows best, adamant that its Mother is wrong. Your third draft has emerged from puberty, realising that its Mother was right about everything.
Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed? Can the writer isolate and vivify all in experience that most deeply engages our intellects and...
Reading/writing is a chance to live a different life in a different world.
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!
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