When people shine a little light on their monster, we find out how similar most of our monsters are.
Poetic license is not a license to scribe recklessly.
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.
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...
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 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.
To master magical realism, one must make the real seem unreal but, more importantly, make the unreal seem real.
(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...
Confusion of a Writer - Sometimes I want all limelight to shine on me and sometimes I just want to vanish underneath the deep waters.
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 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...
As a writer: Aim toward becoming keen through a looking glass limn perspective on evoking pleasure of the senses with STRONG VERBS.
I want to question societal norms, encourage people to think in new ways.
I believe that fiction with its untrammelled nature, speaks to no one, and by so doing, speaks to all.
Writers don't suffer from insanity, they depend upon it!
I enjoy writing historical fiction because it allows me to live more lives than just this one.
Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.
What do you do when your head - your imagination is filled with tales to last a hundred lifetimes?You focus on the really good ones!
There is nothing to writing. You nourish your creativity for months and years until you release your baby out into the world.
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.
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