Until you begin to write, then you see wonders.
It isn't the subjects we write about but the seriousness and subtlety of our expression that determines the worth of or effort.
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...
Never stop learning and never give up!
I trust my characters. They know their stories better than I do.
Read more, Write anything, Earn Everything
I felt condemned to obscurity and to celibacy. But when one is driven by passion, one can live on almost nothing, and I was driven by passion for writing. One does not starve in modern, Western societ...
It's not the writing part that's hard. What's hard is sitting down to write.What keeps us from sitting down is Resistance.
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...
Bulldogs are wonderful creatures to include in books. Besides their adorable bulldogishness, they provide the writer with a rare chance to use forms of the verb "snuffle.
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...
One of the ways to discover our toughness and resiliency is to look back at where we come from. (from Amazon description)
I'd be lying if I said killing off characters wasn't therapeutic in some way.
I can't do anything else until the words in my head are set free.
Meggie Folchart: Having writer's block? Maybe I can help.Fenoglio: Oh yes, that's right. You want to be a writer, don't you?Meggie Folchart: You say that as if it's a bad thing.Fenoglio: Oh no, it's j...
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...
There are authors who write to communicate, there are authors who write to impress themselves.
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.
It is "vibration" that creates our world. Everyone vibrates. We always utter words in our mind. Thus we create sounds continuously. Frequency differs. Tuning your frequency brings the differences. A g...