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...
Publish. Be damned. Repeat.
Writing's in the nouns.
I believe that fiction with its untrammelled nature, speaks to no one, and by so doing, speaks to all.
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.
If you're a writer, write. And always strive for excellence.
Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.
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...
It is the storyteller's task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval.
A story is a part of the writer's soul, told to the world.
Authors are sick people.
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...
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.
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.
Bringing you closer to the fragile edge of living is the job of a writer.
Every day we live, we are writing our own secret book.
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.