Writers write because they're writers. Because their imaginations boil up inside of them, waiting to overflow into the written word. Ordinary people have little capacity for unyielding imagination, wh...
Of course words are magic. That's why they call it spelling.
Fantasy is an excellent platform to shine new lights on old truths.
Life has a vendetta against writers. It does everything in it's power to get in the way of our craft. Maybe it thinks we embellish too much?
In the story of life, the prologue and epilogue are written by God. Yet the plot has been given to us; therefore we should write the best prose we can.
Authors, such as William Zinsser, Steven Pinker, Natalie Goldberg, and Stephen King, who have all written exquisite books on the art and craft of writing, have reminded me that it is the commitment to...
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.
Drafting is like painting the Golden Gate Bridge.The closer you get to the end, the more you start to worry about the beginning.
Make your skin as thick as you are able to, for your career. Keep it as thin as you can tolerate, for your art.
It's not the writing part that's hard. What's hard is sitting down to write.What keeps us from sitting down is Resistance.
I read in order to write. I read out of obsession with writing.
Write, what you feel about. Feel, what you have written about.
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...
... I am with fire between my teeth and still nothing but my blank page.
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.
Write to evolve and you'll evolve to write.
You can write great books, the great man continued. Or you can have kids. It's up to you.[...]Writing was a practice. The more you wrote, the better a writer you became, and the more books you produce...
There is nothing to writing. You nourish your creativity for months and years until you release your baby out into the world.
When I'm writing, I make words my b*tch. But when I'm editing, the words make me their b*tch. It all equals out in the end.
Behind every novel is a greater story of how it came to be published.
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