If you know from whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations on where you can go.
When I consider writing I sometimes wonder why doesn't everybody do it, other times I wonder why does anybody do it.
I've never yet run out of ideas what to write about... only out of time to write it in.
Life has a vendetta against writers. It does everything in it's power to get in the way of our craft. Maybe it thinks we embellish too much?
It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.
It galls me that seeking out the seedy, the sordid, the sexual, and the deviant is the expected (if not altogether acceptable) behavior of male writers; it would surely benefit me, as a writer, if I h...
I am the sum of my past experience.Some people have got a lot to answer for.
You are what you write.
Live to write. Write to inspire. Inspire to write.
Writing is my life. Life is my hobby.
Not everyone gets to do what they love, be good at it, and get paid for it. If you do, you're lucky.
Oh, readers. If only you knew what we've gone through for you.
I've probably put my 10,000 hours into writing, but I believe writing well is also greatly influenced by certain intangibles like mood and inspiration.
The historian records, but the novelist creates.
Q: Where and when do you do your writing? A: Any small room with no natural light will do. As for when, I have no particular schedules... afternoons are best, but I'm too lethargic for any real regime...
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...
I refuse to give up when things go wrong because there is always a sliver lining behind the cloud.
...I have this one nasty habit. Makes me hard to live with. I write......writing is antisocial. It's as solitary as masturbation. Disturb a writer when he is in the throes of creation and he is likely...
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...
One of the ways to discover our toughness and resiliency is to look back at where we come from. (from Amazon description)