Drafting is like painting the Golden Gate Bridge.The closer you get to the end, the more you start to worry about the beginning.
I remember when I first began writing, I would spend maybe five or six hours on perhaps two paragraphs, and at the end of the day, not only were the paragraphs pretty terrible but I was also exhausted...
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!
You don't write because you want to say something. You write because you have something to say.
Read more, Write anything, Earn Everything
There is nothing to writing. You nourish your creativity for months and years until you release your baby out into the world.
Like Elmore Leonard and Donald Westlake and Robert B. Parker and oh so many others, I want to die with my boots on, facedown on my keyboard if possible, in the middle of a sentence.
The secret of being a successful writer is--write. Every writer deserves that chance.
I'm not a writer, I just express in words!
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...
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...
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.
No one ever does the last thing on their list.
... I am with fire between my teeth and still nothing but my blank page.
Write, what you feel about. Feel, what you have written about.
Of course words are magic. That's why they call it spelling.
I never waited for my Irish Cream coffee to be the right temperature, with a storm happening outside and my fireplace crackling ... I wrote every day, at home, in the office, whether I felt like it or...
Listening to Led Zeppelin's Heartbreaker while reading your own book, sipping a beer after midnight, is a satisfying feeling...however fleeting.
Only my characters truly know what's happening - I just hold the pen
Too many stories. Not enough Tim.