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...
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
Distraction is reading written word and when I seek to make distraction I write the words I wish to be enveloped in.
It is kind of ridiculous that a poet is expected to live in the real world.
Life is a book. There are many pages to be written.
As you write your novel, you gradually start thinking like some of your characters in it. And at times the writer may lose himself completely in some character.
Books are like rivers, meandering this way and that, but taking us on a steady, flowing course to somewhere different.
If typos are God's way of keeping a writer humble, plot holes certainly keeps one on their knees.
In the last analysis, most of our difficulties come from losing contact with our instincts, with the age-old forgotten wisdom stored up in us.
It's better to be remembered for what you said, not what you earned.
If you're not creating, you're disintegrating.
Music is a writer's heartbeat.
Any magazine-cover hack can splash paint around wildly and call it a nightmare, or a witches sabbath or a portrait of the devil; but only a great painter can make such a thing really scare or ring tru...
Deadlines help me, but my muse hates them. My muse functions in fits and starts, and tends to take very long vacations. Deadlines are like a hot poker to his ass. They force us both to sit down and wr...
Maybe stories choose how they are told and who tells them.
Writers often torture themselves trying to get the words right. Sometimes you must lower your expectations and just finish it.
There's an old saying that great writing is simple but not easy, and so it is. The search for that one plain but inobvious [SIC] word that will do the work of five, the agony of untangling a complex i...
All the best writers take risks, offend people often and say fuck you to the critics.
He singled out aspects of Quality such as unity, vividness, authority, economy, sensitivity, clarity, emphasis, flow, suspense, brilliance, precision, proportion, depth and so on; kept each of these a...
No book can ever be finished. While working on it we learn just enough to find it immature the moment we turn away from it