Make your skin as thick as you are able to, for your career. Keep it as thin as you can tolerate, for your art.
Live first, write second.
Writers, by nature, are going to be slightly more delusional than others because we're dreamers, we imagine the unlikely, that's how we create... Rather than hoping my delusion becomes a reality, I'd...
Becoming a writer does not mean words will suddenly flow with perfection from your pen. It takes hard work, rejection, and the willingness to lay everything inside you out for the world to see.
Authors, such as William Zinsser, Steven Pinker, Natalie Goldberg, and Stephen King, who have all written exquisite books on the art and craft of writing, have reminded me that it is the commitment to...
I became a physicist to understand the world, then I became a writer to try and change it.
If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.
Too many irons, not enough fire.
Beware of being only a writer.
Authors always feel in danger of being abandoned by loved ones. This is a potent fear. Yet it's as inevitable as writer's cramp when we presume to write words for others to read.
For the writer, madness should seep slowly out of them from the world they endure each day.
All good writers are thieves. The best get away with a heist.
I read in order to write. I read out of obsession with writing.
I have a great many opinions about writing, but I'm afraid that all of them are unprintable
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.
How is your book doing?" or "How many copies have you sold?" are the questions for a salesman. To a writer, you better ask "What did you write today?".
I'm merely dying to be remembered for simply writing about my living memories
If you are an artist, may no love of wealth or fame or admiration and no fear of blame or misunderstanding make you ever paint, with pen or brush, an ideal of external life otherwise than as you see i...
Writing is like scrambling up a hill on all fours; you arrive halfway up, and you are committed - you want to reach the summit, yet you must stop, to gather your strength and will. When you have climb...