All good writers are thieves. The best get away with a heist.
Ninety percent of writing is about listening.
Well-developed characters will ruin your writing plans every time. You may think you know where you're going with a story, but they have other ideas.
Always write as if you will never have the blessed chance to write again, so this has to be the best thing you've ever done. Do that, and it will be.
Half hating, half loving, this free time between writing books.
Only my characters truly know what's happening - I just hold the pen
I can't do anything else until the words in my head are set free.
Writing, for me, makes the world shiver and flame with meaning.
I felt that not only in my book but in novels in general there was something that truly agitated me, a bare and throbbing heart . . . But was that what I wanted? To write, to write with purpose, to wr...
I love pleasure of reading, writing and dancing.
You don't write because you want to say something. You write because you have something to say.
It is infinitely easier to experience an indescribable experience than to describe it.
You always had the power, my dear. You just had to learn it for yourself. Glinda the Good Witch
Live to write. Write to inspire. Inspire to write.
As a writer, the main skill you need is curiosity. As a reader, the main tool you need is open-mindedness.
Up in that room I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about. I was trying to do this all the time I was writing, and it was good and severe discipline.
The most lies we will ever tell in our lives will be to ourselves.
Someone asked me, 'How do you write a book?' I said, 'I live with a pen in one hand.
Becoming a writer does not mean words will suddenly flow with perfection from your pen. It takes hard work, rejection, and the willingness to lay everything inside you out for the world to see.
Writers, by nature, are going to be slightly more delusional than others because we're dreamers, we imagine the unlikely, that's how we create... Rather than hoping my delusion becomes a reality, I'd...
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