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.
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...
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...
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...
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.
Writing is pure sweet freedom.
It isn't the subjects we write about but the seriousness and subtlety of our expression that determines the worth of or effort.
I think that everything you do helps you to write if you're a writer. Adversity and success both contribute largely to making you what you are. If you don't experience either one of those, you're bein...
If you're doing it right... you should feel while you're doing it that you're revealing a little too much of yourself.
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...
There are authors who write to communicate, there are authors who write to impress themselves.
Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed? Can the writer isolate and vivify all in experience that most deeply engages our intellects and...
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.
To write freely is to walk a joyous, terrifying, exhilarating path naked through the world of the fully clothed.
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.
A 15-minute gap in your day is plenty of time to write and read, but not if you check your email first.
However, just like any line of work, writing is a negotiation, and creative control is as elusive as financial stability. I discovered that writing could be like cleaning carpets or working in a facto...
I think writing is like ministry. You get this call and you run before accepting it. If you run right to it, there's a good chance you were not called.
Reading/writing is a chance to live a different life in a different world.