The pen is mightier than the sword as long as it doesn't run out of ink.
...I have this one nasty habit. Makes me hard to live with. I write......writing is antisocial. It's as solitary as masturbation. Disturb a writer when he is in the throes of creation and he is likely...
Yes, writing is that easy. Yes, writing is that hard. But if you want to do it you can. Only you can stop you.
Receiving very little or no feedback from my writing I really don't know if people like it or if they are actually reading any of my work for that matter. Still I will continue to write regardless. I...
Mostly writing requires massive dedication, a whole lot of time spent alone, way too much sitting, countless hours spent thinking hard, and unending and occasionally painful dedication to forming idea...
Most people assume I write at night because of the kind of books I write, but I can shut out the light with my mind.
To write about a struggle amidst the struggling: one must hope that the muddling will end someday.
Time to turn some phrases and place them on these here pages.
In reading we live hundreds lives, in writing we live thousands of lives.
I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.
Of course, if I write a first-person novel about a woman writer, I am inviting every book reviewer to apply the autobiographical label -- to conclude that I am writing about myself. But one must never...
A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understo...
To get over artist's block, make shitty art.
Being a writer all boils down to this: It's you, in a chair, staring at a page. And you're either going to stay in that chair until words are written, or you're going to give up and walk away. The gre...
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.
The story comes, and it is pure story. That's all I set out to write. But I don't believe that we can write any kind of story without including, whether we intend to or not, our response to the world...
Life is more than one genre'.
Write, what you feel about. Feel, what you have written about.
Your first draft is a petulant teenager, sure it knows best, adamant that its Mother is wrong. Your third draft has emerged from puberty, realising that its Mother was right about everything.
A goal is a written plan.Write your dreams and visions.
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