Every day we live, we are writing our own secret book.
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.
we write every day, we fight every day, we think and scheme and dream a little dream every day. manuscripts pile up in the kitchen sink, run-on sentences dangle around our necks. we plant purple prose...
I am the philosophy before any philosopher.
A story is a part of the writer's soul, told to the world.
I can't do anything else until the words in my head are set free.
For the writer, the process of writing a novel is like getting an advanced copy of a book you'd really like to read.
Write to evolve and you'll evolve to write.
Authors are sick people.
Publish. Be damned. Repeat.
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...
Only my characters truly know what's happening - I just hold the pen
Writers are like supreme beings. We can create worlds in a matter of days and we can destroy them just as fast.
It is the storyteller's task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval.
Writing's in the nouns.
I never waited for my Irish Cream coffee to be the right temperature, with a storm happening outside and my fireplace crackling ... I wrote every day, at home, in the office, whether I felt like it or...
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...
Bringing you closer to the fragile edge of living is the job of a writer.
Writing is taking human experience and wrapping it up into a package of your own ideas and hoping someone will pull the bow smiling on top to see what's hiding inside.
If you're a writer, write. And always strive for excellence.
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