Writers don't suffer from insanity, they depend upon it!
Authors are sick people.
There is nothing to writing. You nourish your creativity for months and years until you release your baby out into the world.
Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.
For the writer, the process of writing a novel is like getting an advanced copy of a book you'd really like to read.
Publish. Be damned. Repeat.
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!
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.
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...
Writers are like supreme beings. We can create worlds in a matter of days and we can destroy them just as fast.
Writing's in the nouns.
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...
The art of writing is the manipulation of words to ease the mind and free the imagination
It is the storyteller's task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval.
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...
If you're a writer, write. And always strive for excellence.
Only my characters truly know what's happening - I just hold the pen
Bringing you closer to the fragile edge of living is the job of a writer.
If your writing fails to move the emotional needle, you are not reaching your readers.
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...
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