Fiction is a careful combination of observation, inspiration, and imagination.
I believe you can consider yourself a successful prose writer when the number of words you put on a page each day is equal to, or greater than, the number of milligrams of mind-altering chemicals you...
The art of writing involves making as many cups of tea as you can in the time available for writing. Then adding extra time for writing...
Being a writer, I think, is much like being a parent or a pet parent in my case. I love all of my characters equally, even if I want you to hate them, I love them. If you don't love all your character...
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.
So it is that a writer writes many books. In each book, he intended several urgent and vivid points, many of which he sacrificed as the book's form hardened.
They say a picture's worth a thousand words, but with me it always ends up being well over a hundred thousand.
I'm not talented or gifted. I'm a committed, meticulous workaholic. The only reason I succeed is because I refuse to fail.
Sometimes we don't know where we are going until we get there.
I gradually realized that I was seeing another example of creative ebb, another step by another art on the road that may indeed end in extinction.
Writing poetry is supernatural. Or, it should be.
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).
Writing is a struggle against silence.
Writing at its best is simply taking dictation from your soul.
Sometimes I scare myself at how easily I slip inside my mind and live vicariously through these characters.
Anyone who says writing is easy isn't doing it right.
People wonder why you choose certain subjects to write about. The truth is: you don't really. They choose you
I cannot tell you how important fresh, crisp writing is for an aspiring writer. Plot is great. The overall concept is super important. But the writing is what sells your work. It all boils down to the...
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.
I do not over-intellectualise the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.