The biggest laughs are based on the biggest disappointments and the biggest fears.
writing is vulnerable is power is freedom.
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...
What do you want? What are you willing to give up to get it? Writing requires you make sacrifices. Be prepared to work hard to be a writer.
Fear is good. Like self-doubt, fear is an indicator. Fear tells us what we have to do. Remember our rule of thumb: The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to...
Writing is a 24/7 job. You live it, eat it, breathe it... the pay can be pretty lousy, but you do it happily, because you love it!!! That, and from the day you started writing the voices in your head...
Everything is research.
I before E except after C. Weird?By rebelling against the rules the word itself denotes its very meaning: of strange or extraordinary character, odd, fantastic.I think all writers are weird.
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...
What I don't get about "traditional publishing" is that an author creates a work that they think is good enough to be published. They then have to spend their valuable time begging others to exploit t...
The depression was not incapacitating. It made it hard to take a lot of my suburban life seriously, but that was inextricably mingled with a growing consciousness of the larger brutalities of the worl...
it was dawning on me how uphill a poet's path was, and I confessed to her that if I had to be the choice between being happy or being a poet, I'd choose to be happy.
Shigure: G'morning.Tohru: Good morning!Yuki: Um, Shigure, it's . Why don't you get a sleep pattern?Shigure: I became an author so I wouldn't have to.
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?
Visual and performing artists produce art that lives in the present world. The art of the writer exists in another dimension. Through strings of words and phrases writers inspire their readers to imag...
Writing, for me, makes the world shiver and flame with meaning.
Everyone, except a writer, thinks writing is easy. Writing is tough. Being a disciplined writer is tougher.
Writers are often given the gift of being spectacularly unhappy, so that they can record the full depth of feeling.
All writers have this vague hope that the elves will come in the night and finish any stories.
Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.