I'd be lying if I said killing off characters wasn't therapeutic in some way.
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...
Collaborating on a film script involves two people sitting in a room separated by the silence of two minds working together.
I remember arriving by train in a small Swiss town. I had walked up a steep, cobblestoned street that offered a sweeping view of the village below and a lake, which, in the late afternoon light, was l...
If something inside of you is real, we will probably find it interesting, and it will probably be universal. So you must risk placing real emotion at the center of your work. Write straight into the e...
Writing... is 90 percent listening. You listen so deeply to the space around you that it fills you, and when you write, it pours out of you...You don't only listen to the person speaking to you across...
If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.
Read more, Write anything, Earn Everything
Open your soul and put it out there and dare the world to read it, ready to have them stomp on you and laugh, but ready to do it again the next day.
It is infinitely easier to experience an indescribable experience than to describe it.
Write to evolve and you'll evolve to write.
I trust my characters. They know their stories better than I do.
To write freely is to walk a joyous, terrifying, exhilarating path naked through the world of the fully clothed.
Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.
A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understo...
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....
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...
Writers are born, not created.
Oh, readers. If only you knew what we've gone through for you.
Not everyone gets to do what they love, be good at it, and get paid for it. If you do, you're lucky.
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