Someone asked me, 'How do you write a book?' I said, 'I live with a pen in one hand.
Ninety percent of writing is about listening.
I don't think writers need to be insane. Just crazy.
Of course, if I write a first-person novel about a woman writer, I am inviting every book reviewer to apply the autobiographical label -- to conclude that I am writing about myself. But one must never...
Never stop learning and never give up!
Writing is transcendental. It is a form of expression, a form of art that you can take anywhere. That you can do anywhere. It poses the deepest questions in the universe. It generates emotion. It elic...
Writing a book is burning your brain to enlighten another man's mind
Those who write are writers. Those who wait are waiters.
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 most demanding part of living a lifetime as an artist is the strict discipline of forcing oneself to work steadfastly along the nerve of one’s own most intimate sensitivity.
Collaborating on a film script involves two people sitting in a room separated by the silence of two minds working together.
As a naturally shy person, I loved the anonymity of writing before my career took off. I loved how my stories didn't care about my weight. When I started publishing that writing, I loved that, to my r...
To write about a struggle amidst the struggling: one must hope that the muddling will end someday.
Real-life duties eat valuable writing time.
Writing is a blurred mirror. Sometimes we work harder to see how we are reflected, but often we avert our gaze from the shadowy image.
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...
it's been my experience that most writers don't talk about their craft--they just do it
Writing a complete novel is time consuming, frustrating, nerve wrecking, and most of the time your work is under valued, under appreciated, and taken for granted. So why do authors do it? Because not...
On the way home, I saw a fist fight between an adverb and a pair of parentheses.I kept on walking.
Writers haven't got any rockets to blast off. We don't even trundle the most insignificant auxiliary vehicle. We haven't got any military might. So what can literature do in the face of the merciless...