Time to turn some phrases and place them on these here pages.
I'm writing. The pages are starting to stack up. My morale is improving the more I feel like a writer.
« L'écrit ça arrive comme le vent, c'est nu, c'est de l'encre, c'est l'écrit, et ça passe comme rien d'autre ne passe dans la vie, rien de plus, sauf elle, la vie. »
So much of reading and writing to me is about being elsewhere, no matter how much I love where I am.
I don't know which is worse—to have a bad teacher or no teacher at all. In any case, I believe the teacher's work should be largely negative. He can't put the gift into you, but if he finds it there,...
I know its totally senseless to attempt to write something 'great' in a time where people seem mostly concerned with bashing each other heads in, there's only 1 bestseller a year that a 12 year old wo...
As a writer, the main skill you need is curiosity. As a reader, the main tool you need is open-mindedness.
Writing is the spectrum through which the chaos of life can be seen, studied and understood.
Every writer or wanna-be writer has ideas for books. The problem isn't finding an idea, it's choosing one
I personally believe that one learns to write by writing.
Don't give in to doubt. Never be discouraged if your first draft isn't what you thought it would be. Given skill and a story that compels you, muster your determination and make what's on the page clo...
The only thing you really need to be a writer is time. Regular, consistent time, quality time when you're not tired. I write on the bus to and from work, that's my time, 1 or 2 hours every single day....
Writing is like daydreaming through your fingers.
Today I will find something beautiful.Delicate pink blossoms on a cherry tree.The dove resting near the lemon buds.Sunbeams smiling from sky to earth.Smiling on me."Creating" in BREATHE IN
Writers need faith, or else we can never trust the action of our words!
Writingis therapeutic. It helps you cope with issues that seem gargantuan at the time.The process of expressing yourself about a problem, editing your thoughts, andwriting some more can help you contr...
I would write:The soft melting hunk of butter trickled in gold down the stringy grooves of the split yam.Or:The child's clumsy fingers fumbled in sleep, feeling vainly for the wish of its dream.The ol...
I do not plan my fiction any more than I normally plan woodland walks; I follow the path that seems most promising at any given point, not some itinerary decided before entry.
There are a lot of ways for a novelist to create suspense, but also really only two: one a trick, one an art.
I've discovered that sometimes writing badly can eventually lead to something better. Not writing at all leads to nothing.