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...
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...
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.
A novelist has to know enough about a subject to fool the passenger next to him on an airplane.
I became a physicist to understand the world, then I became a writer to try and change it.
Life is more than one genre'.
It is infinitely easier to experience an indescribable experience than to describe it.
There is nothing to writing. You nourish your creativity for months and years until you release your baby out into the world.
There is nothing like been consumed by the blazing fire of untold story.
So they spread the paintings on the lawn, and the boy explained each of them. This is the school, and this is the playground, and these are my friends. He stared at the paintings for a long time and t...
Drafting is like painting the Golden Gate Bridge.The closer you get to the end, the more you start to worry about the beginning.
To write about a struggle amidst the struggling: one must hope that the muddling will end someday.
Be an unstoppable force. Write with an imaginary machete strapped to your thigh. This is not wishy-washy, polite, drinking-tea-with-your-pinkie-sticking-out stuff. It's who you want to be, your most p...
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!
When a writer dies, he becomes his books.
When you start out writing, your inner creative is just a little seedling with tiny leaves above the earth, peeping out into the air for the first time.
Perfectionism is the enemy of the author. There is a difference between good writing habits and perfectionism. The author who displays good writing habits delivers on time. The aspiring author who is...
Our stories are our best gifts--treasure and share them!
The secret of being a successful writer is--write. Every writer deserves that chance.
Those who write are writers. Those who wait are waiters.