The process of self-invention is never-ending; writer, like children, are always growing into their gifts. (Susan Larson in a "Times-Picayune" book review.
When I'm writing, I make words my b*tch. But when I'm editing, the words make me their b*tch. It all equals out in the end.
Lyrics paved my teenage route to loving words. I take those passionate mini-stories with me everywhere.
I only write when the spirit moves me ... and the spirit moves me every day. William Faulkner, Oxford, Mississippi
Starting your book is only the first five miles of a twenty-six-mile marathon that’s one-third of a triathlon (authoring, publishing, and entrepreneuring).
There are a lot of ways for a novelist to create suspense, but also really only two: one a trick, one an art.
Where do [writers] get [their] ideas? And the answer is that no one knows where the come from and nobody should know. They evolve in thin air, they float down from some mysterious heaven, and we reach...
I hate writing, I love having written.
Nobody reads a book to get to the middle.
The only 'ironclad rules' in writing fiction are the laws of physics and the principles of grammar, and even those can be bent.
The writing begins when you've finished. Only then do you know what you're trying to say.
I do not put in long hours at the keys - or very seldom. Instead, I snatch time. I write in the crannies of my life.
Writings are thoughts in a defined moment.
When the work is the best work, it's more like being a secretary than it is a creative person, you just sort of take the stuff down.
When I sleep tonight I dream of what I will imagine tomorrow.
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...
Collaborating on a film script involves two people sitting in a room separated by the silence of two minds working together.
I write to escape. I haven't managed it yet, but I'm working on it
Writing like this is a little like milking a cow: the milk is so rich and delicious, and the cow is so glad you did it.
I don't fire up the prose. I just tell it straight and don't fool around with it.
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