They say a picture's worth a thousand words, but with me it always ends up being well over a hundred thousand.
Set fire to cities and nations, to hearts and minds, to the very core of every human spirit. Make sure your words seep into the skin of the reader, leaving trace minerals that sustain the ailing human...
Never underestimate the power of the written word, especially when you put them down in your own voice.
I have been sometimes way too attracted by my own villains because in a way they seem to hold the secret to the heart of the narrative.
Young people ask why I became a writer, as if it were something I decided. I didn't decide; it grew on me like ivy.
(Dorothy) Dunnett is the master of the invisible, particularly in her later books. Where is this tension coming from? Why is this scene so agonizing? Why is this scene so emotional? Tension and emotio...
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...
Working on it.
Writing is the spectrum through which the chaos of life can be seen, studied and understood.
Writing is like surfing on a wild sea, in the middle of a moonless night, in a hailstorm, on a deserted island.Yeah... that about sums it up.
I've found that busting your ass on a daily basis to make your art good, clear, and meaningful creates the most luck.
I like what I do. Some writers have said in print that they hated writing and it was just a chore and a burden. I certainly don't feel that way about it. Sometimes it's difficult. You know, you always...
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...
Experience is the catalyst for all great stories.
Writing became such a process of discovery that I couldn't wait to get to work in the morning: I wanted to know what I was going to say. ~Sharon O'Brien
Music is a writer's heartbeat.
I'm not talented or gifted. I'm a committed, meticulous workaholic. The only reason I succeed is because I refuse to fail.
Nothing listens as well as a blank page.
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.
The pen is mightier than the sword as long as it doesn't run out of ink.
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