The fiction writer has to engage in a continual examination of conscience. He has to be aware of the freak in himself.
I read the novel I had been writing for several months with an odd sense that it was the work of a stranger. I usually work in the dead hours of night and surprising the manuscript mid-morning reveale...
The irony of a writer is he/she craves privacy to pen words that crave the public.
If you have a story to tell, put it out there. Get the thing done. No excuses. No procrastinating. No apologies. It will never be as good as you want it to be, so forget about perfection. Just be sati...
A writer needs solitude : moments that he can spend in introspection and in reflection. These moments make him pensive and thoughtful and help him write his thoughts with clarity. A life of devotion t...
It's basically an act of faith, hoping that a small idea will unspool into a bigger whole. Sometimes, in fact often, it doesn't and it just runs out of steam. The hope for me is that it will snowball....
The writing begins when you've finished. Only then do you know what you're trying to say.
I write not because I want to but because I am destined to.
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.
There is nothing more valuable in the writing process than a friend to hold you accountable to your own potential.
I am a creator, writing like the wind, I carry the weight of a future world in the barrel of a pen, etching my characters into the paper with life giving ink so my dreams and reality might finally mee...
It's not the writing part that's hard. What's hard is sitting down to write.What keeps us from sitting down is Resistance.
I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day.
Books most certainly don't write themselves, but life does. When in doubt about what to write, use your own life.
Getting started on writing a book isn't as hard as it sounds. You don't need a plan and an outline. In fact, all you need are two things: time and one idea.
We humans are the only creatures on the planet capable of articulating worlds which are contrary, even in the most minor way, to reality. Every story, I think, begins there. With a dream. A fantasy.
There are three secrets to writing a novel. Unfortunately nobody knows what they are.
I began writing late; my first articles and stories were published after I was thirty, and I was motivated by money. Money is not a bad motivation. The need to eat keeps us from laziness, and the fact...
I write to escape. I haven't managed it yet, but I'm working on it
The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.