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.
The awful part of the writing game is that you can never be sure the stuff is any good.
So much of reading and writing to me is about being elsewhere, no matter how much I love where I am.
Lyrics paved my teenage route to loving words. I take those passionate mini-stories with me everywhere.
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...
I write because, as wonderful as life is - and it is truly wonderful - it isn't enough. It does not, for example, contain dragons. I find this unsatisfactory. So I read. And I write.
Our stories are our best gifts--treasure and share them!
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.
Writers are born, not created.
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.
Rejection is part of the game. Or rather, rejection is part of the profession. A profession which at times can feel like a game.
Writing is the spectrum through which the chaos of life can be seen, studied and understood.
If you lack confidence in setting one word after another and sense that you are stuck in a place from which you will never be set free, if you feel sure that you will never make it and were not cut ou...
I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.
For me, at least, fiction is the only way i can even begin to twist my lying memories into something true.
Confession: I don't want to be one of my characters. I'm mean to them sometimes. Really mean.
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...
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...