You can write great books, the great man continued. Or you can have kids. It's up to you.[...]Writing was a practice. The more you wrote, the better a writer you became, and the more books you produce...
I am the sum of my past experience.Some people have got a lot to answer for.
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.
I love pleasure of reading, writing and dancing.
May the words come easy, the doubt be weak, and the coffee strong enough to eat through steel. (I don't drink coffee...but I understand most authors do, and they like it with a bit of fight in it.) No...
When I consider writing I sometimes wonder why doesn't everybody do it, other times I wonder why does anybody do it.
I really learned how to write from Robert Louis Stevenson, Anthony Trollope, and de Maupassant.
I've never yet run out of ideas what to write about... only out of time to write it in.
I don't think writers need to be insane. Just crazy.
We all have a place within us, that would like to rewrite the way our life was written out for us....That's why people want to become authors.
Too many irons, not enough fire.
I read the novel I had been writing for several months with an odd sense that it was the work of a stranger. I usually work in the dead hours of night and surprising the manuscript mid-morning reveale...
Listening to Led Zeppelin's Heartbreaker while reading your own book, sipping a beer after midnight, is a satisfying feeling...however fleeting.
You don't write because you want to say something. You write because you have something to say.
Only my characters truly know what's happening - I just hold the pen
Ninety percent of writing is about listening.
If you know from whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations on where you can go.
Real-life duties eat valuable writing time.
Not everyone gets to do what they love, be good at it, and get paid for it. If you do, you're lucky.
Whatever good and beautiful experience you are having, if you are not writing them down, you are wasting them! Your thoughts on the paper are your real reality because the realities of the experience...