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.
Sometimes I scare myself at how easily I slip inside my mind and live vicariously through these characters.
Nobody reads a book to get to the middle.
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).
You write what you know, and I know rock and roll.
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 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.
As a writer, the main skill you need is curiosity. As a reader, the main tool you need is open-mindedness.
I write the sacred words from wondering.
I'm writing. The pages are starting to stack up. My morale is improving the more I feel like a writer.
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....
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 personally believe that one learns to write by writing.
Stories are invented as you go along...
« 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. »
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...
When in doubt, go the scandalous route.
Good writing is rhythm.