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...
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...
I mean, what you say about how you write your books? What I mean is, first you've got to think of something, and then when you've thought of it you've got to force yourself to sit down and write it....
When strangers on a train or a plane ask what I do for a living, I say, "I kill people." This response makes for a short conversation. No eye contact and no sudden movement from my seat-mate. Only pea...
Live first, write second.
The biggest laughs are based on the biggest disappointments and the biggest fears.
Art is too often discounted as a secondary priority. The writer is necessary to society.
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...
Writing is pure sweet freedom.
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.
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.
Word count doesn't tell me when a story ends, my characters will tell me.
The beauty of writing is imagining new endings to a time of darkness, like burning off a morning fog with the heat and clarity of the sun.
Writing is my joy, is my comfort zone, it strengthens my feeble knees and it frees my troubled heart.
Beware of being only a writer.
Live to write. Write to inspire. Inspire to write.
Contemplation and writing demand solitude, which leads to a sorry feeling of isolation and detachment. Writers try to call their loneliness genius, and the world believes them most of the time.
Everyone, except a writer, thinks writing is easy. Writing is tough. Being a disciplined writer is tougher.
To write is to stand at the edge of a bottomless well, unafraid of falling in.