When entering a library, I never forget to bow down!
I hope I don't write TOO many books! When I look at authors who have written too many books, I wonder to myself "When did they live?" I certainly want to write BECAUSE I live! I know I don't want to w...
I think there are two types of writers, the architects and the gardeners. The architects plan everything ahead of time, like an architect building a house. They know how many rooms are going to be in...
I'm not a writer. Ernest Hemingway was a writer. I just have a vivid imagination and type 90 WPM.
Sometimes when I prepare to write, I feel the same sensation wash over me as if my toes were curling over the brink of a high cliff, my gaze peering downward into a dark pond, and I anxiously wonder,...
And as your writing evolves, what you need and get from it evolves.
The worst part of writing is meeting all these great new characters and having no one to talk about (the adventures you share with) them.
Coffee, my delight of the morning; yoga, my delight of the noon. Then before nightfall, I run along the pleasant paths of the Jardin du Luxembourg. For when air cycles through the lungs, and the body...
You cannot write your character until you know how he or she thinks, until you know what their philosophy is in the world that they occupy.
When a person sets out to learn from others and not to teach others he becomes a true writer.
What is your advice to young writers? Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes.
Developing your voice takes... time and practice.
A hammer made of deadlines is the surest tool for crushing writer's block.
I still suspect that most people start out with some kind of ability to tell a story but that it gets lost along the way. Of course, the ability to create life with words is essentially a gift. If you...
Distraction is reading written word and when I seek to make distraction I write the words I wish to be enveloped in.
At one time I thought the most important thing was talent. I think now that — the young man or the young woman must possess or teach himself, train himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and t...
My pen beats faster as I write with my heart
A day of bad writing is always better than a day of no writing.
Books are like rivers, meandering this way and that, but taking us on a steady, flowing course to somewhere different.
I grasp words for the sake of clutching My mind considers them heart touchingRight then I write for my reader's pleasureNot knowing what distance a soul can measure
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