I'm writing. The pages are starting to stack up. My morale is improving the more I feel like a writer.
To say that a writer's hold on reality is tenuous is an understatement-it's like saying the Titanic had a rough crossing. Writer's build their own realities, move into them and occasionally send lette...
Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.
Being blind is the worst possible thing and asking me to read and write no more is torture.
I still love the sound of breaking,the tearing of the page
So much of reading and writing to me is about being elsewhere, no matter how much I love where I am.
One lives by memory . . . and not by truth.
I just inhaled kimchi ramen. Nose on fire. Next chapter may be obscured by tears.
Writing is the act of discovery.
The awful part of the writing game is that you can never be sure the stuff is any good.
Behind every novel is a greater story of how it came to be published.
As a writer, the main skill you need is curiosity. As a reader, the main tool you need is open-mindedness.
Writing is the spectrum through which the chaos of life can be seen, studied and understood.
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...
Today is the day that you create worlds, you change lives, you make a something, a someone, out of nothing.Today is the day you become a writer.
I had a few people ask me if I might one day write my own autobiography. I just told them, 'It's already being written; through my books.
She cured me of my sadness.
Don't give in to doubt. Never be discouraged if your first draft isn't what you thought it would be. Given skill and a story that compels you, muster your determination and make what's on the page clo...
No art ever came out of not risking your neck.
I should be writing ...