As a writer: Aim toward becoming keen through a looking glass limn perspective on evoking pleasure of the senses with STRONG VERBS.
Always carry with you a pen and a notebook or a journal to write the thoughts that flashes in a moments.
I want to question societal norms, encourage people to think in new ways.
To master magical realism, one must make the real seem unreal but, more importantly, make the unreal seem real.
Fiction gives us a reach into the lives of individuals that would otherwise be but a closed door. If we are gifted with a desire to tell tales, then we should tell them . . . if only to reach but a fe...
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...
A goal is a written plan.Write your dreams and visions.
I enjoy writing historical fiction because it allows me to live more lives than just this one.
(In reply to the question, 'Would you like some suggestions for a plot for your next book?')There are three problems with getting plot suggestions from other people. The first is that ideas are the ea...
When people shine a little light on their monster, we find out how similar most of our monsters are.
If a writer writes something that he or she has never experienced, I think the reader can sense right away that it is garbage. The only thing that can replace experience, though, is imagination; howev...
I believe that fiction with its untrammelled nature, speaks to no one, and by so doing, speaks to all.
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...
Confusion of a Writer - Sometimes I want all limelight to shine on me and sometimes I just want to vanish underneath the deep waters.
I am the philosophy before any philosopher.
Every day we live, we are writing our own secret book.
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.
Write to evolve and you'll evolve to write.
When you have something meaningful to say, you lose your desire for much grammar; for only in the incompetence of words does one seek the redeeming power of vocabulary.
A story is a part of the writer's soul, told to the world.
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