Writing is my life. Life is my hobby.
Hardly anybody ever writes anything nice about introverts. Extroverts rule. This is rather odd when you realise that about nineteen writers out of twenty are introverts. We are been taught to be asham...
Writing fiction is not a profession that leaves one well-disposed toward reading fiction. One starts out loving books and stories, and then one becomes jaded and increasingly hard to please. I read le...
I knew how severe I had been and how bad things had been. The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one who poverty bothers.
Fiction gives us a reach into the lives of individuals that would otherwise be but a closed door. If we are gifted with a desire to tell tales, then we should tell them . . . if only to reach but a fe...
The next best thing after finishing writing a chapter is starting a new one.
You never have to change anything you get up in the middle of the night to write.
Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things, you're doomed.
My best advice to writers is get yourself born in an interesting place.
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.
One lives by memory . . . and not by truth.
I really learned how to write from Robert Louis Stevenson, Anthony Trollope, and de Maupassant.
To write is to stand at the edge of a bottomless well, unafraid of falling in.
Some days being a writer consists of telling yourself you aren't insane, your characters are.
So here I am writing my zombie story and my lead character decides to betray me.
Delicious days ahead for solitude and writing and, oh yes, the holiday meal with family. Live with my characters until term starts in 2012!
Art is too often discounted as a secondary priority. The writer is necessary to society.
No one ever does the last thing on their list.
But, later, coming back and reading what I have produced, I am unable to detect the difference between what came easily and when I had to sit down and say, "Well, now it's writing time and now I'll wr...
Everything is research.
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