Not everyone gets to do what they love, be good at it, and get paid for it. If you do, you're lucky.
Real-life duties eat valuable writing time.
I am here alone for the first time in weeks, to take up my "real" life again at last. That is what is strange - that friends, even passionate love, are not my real life unless there is time alone in w...
Be Visionary ...
There are authors who write to communicate, there are authors who write to impress themselves.
Coming up with ideas is the easiest thing on earth. Putting them down is the hardest.
When people say, 'you're so young to be a writer,' I always reply, 'I started young because I've got a lot to write.
You know you're a mom when you open the door to the dishwasher mid-cycle and think, 'This is the closest I'm going to get to a spa treatment till next Mother's Day.'""Joining the words 'Lose Weight, E...
Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
In order to write about life first you must live it.
We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing - an actor, a writer - I am a person who does things - I write, I act - and I never know what I'm going to do next. I think you can be imprisoned if yo...
Whenever I have endured or accomplished some difficult task -- such as watching television, going out socially or sleeping -- I always look forward to rewarding myself with the small pleasure of getti...
Writing is like having sex. The people who never shut up about doing it are usually the ones who don't know what the hell they're doing.
When you can't enter through the front door, kick in a window.
... I am with fire between my teeth and still nothing but my blank page.
Writers are a superior breed. No one else can face so much rejection and still thrive.
I should be writing ...
A novelist has to know enough about a subject to fool the passenger next to him on an airplane.
I don't think playing it safe constitutes a retreat, necessarily. In other words, I don't think if, by playing safe he means we are not going to delve into controversy, then if that's what he means he...
The privilege is not writing a novel, it's to have someone read it. When you look at it that way, you realize the responsibility you have to put your very best on the page.
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