Ninety percent of writing is about listening.
To write about a struggle amidst the struggling: one must hope that the muddling will end someday.
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.
Literature is the ditch I'm going to die in. It's still the thing I care most about.
In eleven or twelve years of writing, Mike, I can lay claim to at least this: I have never written beneath myself. I have never written anything that I didn't want my name attached to. I have probed d...
Life is more than one genre'.
Of course words are magic. That's why they call it spelling.
Every day we live, we are writing our own secret book.
I write because, as wonderful as life is - and it is truly wonderful - it isn't enough. It does not, for example, contain dragons. I find this unsatisfactory. So I read. And I write.
When I'm writing, I make words my b*tch. But when I'm editing, the words make me their b*tch. It all equals out in the end.
Lyrics paved my teenage route to loving words. I take those passionate mini-stories with me everywhere.
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...
I refuse to give up when things go wrong because there is always a sliver lining behind the cloud.
Q: Where and when do you do your writing? A: Any small room with no natural light will do. As for when, I have no particular schedules... afternoons are best, but I'm too lethargic for any real regime...
Life has a vendetta against writers. It does everything in it's power to get in the way of our craft. Maybe it thinks we embellish too much?
Whatever good and beautiful experience you are having, if you are not writing them down, you are wasting them! Your thoughts on the paper are your real reality because the realities of the experience...
I should be writing ...
No art ever came out of not risking your neck.
I can't do anything else until the words in my head are set free.
I love pleasure of reading, writing and dancing.
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