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'.
As a writer, the main skill you need is curiosity. As a reader, the main tool you need is open-mindedness.
However, just like any line of work, writing is a negotiation, and creative control is as elusive as financial stability. I discovered that writing could be like cleaning carpets or working in a facto...
I believe you can consider yourself a successful prose writer when the number of words you put on a page each day is equal to, or greater than, the number of milligrams of mind-altering chemicals you...
What do you do when your head - your imagination is filled with tales to last a hundred lifetimes?You focus on the really good ones!
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.
The most lies we will ever tell in our lives will be to ourselves.
Someone asked me, 'How do you write a book?' I said, 'I live with a pen in one hand.
Rejection is part of the game. Or rather, rejection is part of the profession. A profession which at times can feel like a game.
Becoming a writer does not mean words will suddenly flow with perfection from your pen. It takes hard work, rejection, and the willingness to lay everything inside you out for the world to see.
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.
Writers, by nature, are going to be slightly more delusional than others because we're dreamers, we imagine the unlikely, that's how we create... Rather than hoping my delusion becomes a reality, I'd...
I'd be lying if I said killing off characters wasn't therapeutic in some way.
Writing is my joy, is my comfort zone, it strengthens my feeble knees and it frees my troubled heart.
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...
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.
...writing Jeeves stories gives me a great deal of pleasure and keeps me out of the public houses.
Beware of being only a writer.
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