When someone gives you a constructive criticism about your thoughts, this strategy can help you to improve your thinking and writing skills that can result you to have more self respect for enhancing...
Some part of me knew from the first that what I wanted was not reality but myth.
Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.
Writing is like gardening. Planting, watering, and weeding are not enough. You have to prune if you want growth.
I recommend writing standing up from time to time. It's easier to dance when you finish writing.
You don't teach a person how to write as much as you teach that person how to survive the writing process.
A writer's problem does not change. He himself changes and the world he lives in changes but his problem remains the same. It is always how to write truly and, having found what is true, to project it...
Writing is easy. Writing a publishable book is hard.
For most of the process, nothing but faith, fueled by your own stubbornness, will be pulling you along. The work that you've done on the book so far won't be much comfort, because so much of it will b...
A short story I have written long ago would barge into my house in the middle of the night, shake me awake and shout, 'Hey,this is no time for sleeping! You can't forget me, there's still more to writ...
All good writers are thieves. The best get away with a heist.
I read in order to write. I read out of obsession with writing.
Write, what you feel about. Feel, what you have written about.
Writing is the thing that props me up.
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...
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...
Nobody whispers it in your ear. It is like something you memorized once and forgot. Now it comes back and rips away your breath. You find and finger a phrase at a time; you lay it down cautiously, as...
A successful self-publisher must fill three roles: Author, Publisher, and Entrepreneur—or APE.
I think of myth and magic as the hieroglyphics of the human psyche. They are a special language that circumvents conscious thought and goes straight to the subconscious. Non-fiction uses the medium of...
At it's best,the sensation of writing is that of any unmerited grace. It is handed to you, but only if you look for it. You search, you break your heart, your back, your brain, and then - and only the...