The muse is fickle; ergo, when she knocks, ANSWER! It may take a while, but trust me, she WILL knock. In the meantime, keep your ear pressed firmly to the door.
When I write, I write obsessively. I try to pace myself, but some fires are too hot to put out.
I want to question societal norms, encourage people to think in new ways.
You can swap the message around, and whatever the particular norm is, or whatever the particular message is, when you put your pet-peeve message before story, odds are you are going to bore the shit o...
Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.
Writing is like surfing on a wild sea, in the middle of a moonless night, in a hailstorm, on a deserted island.Yeah... that about sums it up.
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...
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.
A goal is a written plan.Write your dreams and visions.
Authors are sick people.
A writer cannot really grasp what he has written. It is not like a building or a sculpture; it cannot be seen whole. It is only a kind of smoke seized and printed on a page.
It is the storyteller's task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval.
Writers are like supreme beings. We can create worlds in a matter of days and we can destroy them just as fast.
If you're a writer, write. And always strive for excellence.
Q: What do you think is magical about fiction?DFW: ... The first line of attack for that question is that there is this existential loneliness in the real world. I don't know what you're thinking or w...
Always carry with you a pen and a notebook or a journal to write the thoughts that flashes in a moments.
One hasn't become a writer until one has distilled writing intoa habit, and that habit has been forced into an obsession.Writing has to be an obsession. It has to be something as organic,physiological...
If your writing fails to move the emotional needle, you are not reaching your readers.
Bringing you closer to the fragile edge of living is the job of a writer.
The art of writing is the manipulation of words to ease the mind and free the imagination
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