I'd be lying if I said killing off characters wasn't therapeutic in some way.
For the writer, madness should seep slowly out of them from the world they endure each day.
I lose it when I can't write. I feel sad and confused and fucked off.
Lyrics paved my teenage route to loving words. I take those passionate mini-stories with me everywhere.
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.
Words writers choose are a glimmering reflection into our souls.
Authors always feel in danger of being abandoned by loved ones. This is a potent fear. Yet it's as inevitable as writer's cramp when we presume to write words for others to read.
Writing is not a numbers game. You should focus more on reaching the hearts of readers and building fans more than publishing a plethora of books that no one may care about.
Writing is like a blind man building a stone house with a limited amount of space and time. Brick after brick, row after row, feeling his way round and round. Turning stones into walls, rooms and towe...
I see Sarah framed in the light of her doorway and it is like looking at a painting that emanate a mixture of wishes and truths about someone I loved - from a time I can already vividly remember. I wo...
Writing is transcendental. It is a form of expression, a form of art that you can take anywhere. That you can do anywhere. It poses the deepest questions in the universe. It generates emotion. It elic...
...writing Jeeves stories gives me a great deal of pleasure and keeps me out of the public houses.
Write to evolve and you'll evolve to write.
One of the ways to discover our toughness and resiliency is to look back at where we come from. (from Amazon description)
Listening to Led Zeppelin's Heartbreaker while reading your own book, sipping a beer after midnight, is a satisfying feeling...however fleeting.
So much of reading and writing to me is about being elsewhere, no matter how much I love where I am.
Live first, write second.
Write and keep writing, not because people will like it, but because someone may get a kick out of thrashing your book.
Beware of being only a writer.
I read the novel I had been writing for several months with an odd sense that it was the work of a stranger. I usually work in the dead hours of night and surprising the manuscript mid-morning reveale...
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