Dreams are there for those who dare to dream them.
I don't think playing it safe constitutes a retreat, necessarily. In other words, I don't think if, by playing safe he means we are not going to delve into controversy, then if that's what he means he...
Sometimes we don't know where we are going until we get there.
The only way you can write is by the light of the bridges burning behind you.
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.
I am here alone for the first time in weeks, to take up my "real" life again at last. That is what is strange - that friends, even passionate love, are not my real life unless there is time alone in w...
I only wish to write.
Writing is a lonely business, which if allowed publicity and socializing it might deteriorate. Supportive people understand the need of a writer to withdraw to the solitude of oneself.
Every time I complete a major project I reward myself with two full days of just reading and coffee! I do justify that it is my work!
Literature is the ditch I'm going to die in. It's still the thing I care most about.
The greater the artist, the greater the doubt.
Writing at its best is simply taking dictation from your soul.
The moment I realize I just stayed up until five in the morning writing is that moment I know I am meant to be a writer.
Anecdotes don't make good stories. Dig down so far that what finally comes out is not even what you thought it was about.
Sleepless nights, infinite random thoughts, Remembering those moments, he had much to say, an urge to talk to someone, to be cared, to be loved, to be understood !! She was gone by now, And he was los...
I'd give you my heart, but you'd just give it back, so I'll give you my words instead.
One of the few things I know about writing is this:spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book; gi...
There are three certainties in a writer's life: death, taxes, and rejection letters.
Time to turn some phrases and place them on these here pages.
Up in that room I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about. I was trying to do this all the time I was writing, and it was good and severe discipline.