I believe that fiction with its untrammelled nature, speaks to no one, and by so doing, speaks to all.
Build a strong foundation and you can reach even the most unthinkable heights.
So they spread the paintings on the lawn, and the boy explained each of them. This is the school, and this is the playground, and these are my friends. He stared at the paintings for a long time and t...
If you are serious, and you want to make a living as an author, then you need to hustle. Period. If you can't make that quality, then you need to concentrate on your craft and practice more. One other...
Writing's in the nouns.
When you start out writing, your inner creative is just a little seedling with tiny leaves above the earth, peeping out into the air for the first time.
Perfectionism is the enemy of the author. There is a difference between good writing habits and perfectionism. The author who displays good writing habits delivers on time. The aspiring author who is...
...a thriller's toughest trick: carefully assembling everything we think we know, until it reveals the one thing we didn't see coming.
Nobody reads a book to get to the middle.
You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That's why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistenc...
No writing is wasted. Did you know that sourdough from San Francisco is leavened partly by a bacteria called lactobacillus sanfrancisensis? It is native to the soil there, and does not do well elsewhe...
Every few weeks she would shut herself up in her room, put on her scribbling suit, and fall into a vortex as she expressed it, writing away at her novel with all her heart and soul, for till that was...
When I sleep tonight I dream of what I will imagine tomorrow.
Writing is like making love, editing is like giving your great grandfather a sponge bath.
The nerve which controls the pen winds itself about every fibre of our being, threads the heart, pierces the liver.
I only write when the spirit moves me ... and the spirit moves me every day. William Faulkner, Oxford, Mississippi
Don't say it was "delightful"; make us say "delightful" when we've read the description.
The best advice I can give on this is, once it's done, to put it away until you can read it with new eyes. Finish the short story, print it out, then put it in a drawer and write other things. When yo...
Writing is daydreaming with ink.
I don't fire up the prose. I just tell it straight and don't fool around with it.