Be true to the writer within you; tell the story you’re dying to tell in exactly the way you wish to tell it, and don’t trust anyone who tries to sway you otherwise.

The day will always have some bit of weirdness in it like a piece of fruit with one bad spot. Spit it out as fast as u can and eat the rest!

If you can’t be an author, be a book

If you believe that you’re doing will positive results, it will – even if it’s not immediately obvious.

It was a flight, a kind of fleeing, a kind of falling, falling higher and higher, spinning off the edge of the earth and beyond the sun and through the vast silent vacuum where there...

As long as they talk about you, you’re not really dead, as long as they speak your name, you continue. A legend doesn’t die, just because the man dies.

Sometimes writing everyday is like pulling teeth, painful, but necessary.

The stories that unfold in the space of a writer’s study, the objects chosen to watch over a desk, the books selected to sit on the shelves, all weave a web of echoes and reflections...

A well-developed and versed character will write the story for you.

There is a brilliant novel in all of us. Some imagine it…others live it. Authors dwell in an auspicious life by having the ability to fuse the two.

I believe that a writer is a person who writes. An author is a person who has written.

Why, of course, if the reader were smart enough, he could figure the whole thing through after just the first few pages! But in his heart Arthur knew that his readers didn’t really want to...

What an author doesn’t know could fill a book.

The only way that your work will truly find an audience is if it is genuine.

I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing this.[Cormac McCarthy’s Venomous Fiction, New York Times, April 19, 1992]

Fiction gives us a reach into the lives of individuals that would otherwise be but a closed door. If we are gifted with a desire to tell tales, then we should tell them . ....

Being an author is to have a toe in the creative pool and a foot in the vat of commerce.

I write books, bitch!

Ignorance isn’t a sword. It’s a weight that drags a soul swirling to the bottom of the sea.

As a child, I ate up the image Carl strived to portray: An inspirational rags-to-riches tale of a go-getter emerging the hell of his sulfur-scented, Podunk Texas upbringing. With a community college dropout education, Carl...

I don’t want to write about real things, I would rather write about an uncontrollable parasitic twin.

masculine” traits of learning. Famous romantic writers such as Lord Byron, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and William Hazlitt criticized the bluestockings. …and Hazlitt declared his ‘utter aversion to Bluestockingism … I do not care a fig...

As a writer, I see the saga of your life in a single glimpse. It may be inaccurate, but my version doesn’t lack for creativity.

Someone described a writer’s world as tormented, and I had to laugh. A tormented writer? I personally wouldn’t have put those two words together. Emotions have the power to torment a soul, yes, I agree...

Stand tall and face YOUR truth. Speak boldly and be confident in what you say. Don’t just dream, but take the steps to get where you want to be. Stay motivated, determined, and focused because...

I surround myself with books when I write, thus surrounding myself with writers… only they don’t critique me and then get up for coffee.

I reached into the pile and pulled out a few connected chips and then was about to shove them into my mouth, when I saw what appeared to be the face of an angel sitting...

The headlines are never in the news! And so, what I am saying is the news is never on the headlines

You’re reading one of those books in which the author is in love with the reader. My life.

The self-addressed stamped envelope. The representation of everything that was wrong with the old publishing industry.

To close a fellow human being in your heart compels more respect than attending 1000 Christmas Masses.

Starting the Day— Another chance to be new again. How many of us still wish for that? To be your own sunrise. To awaken like a prayer -both solemn and joyful at still being alive.

The BEST revenge is to be fabulous.

Reading is a lot like fine dining… Some readers prefer just the meat and potatoes; I enjoy a seven-course meal.

My writing, it’s my way of making sense of everything. My way to feel whole. May I never be complete and may I never feel content – please, let me always have the need, always...

Here is the world. Don’t be afraid for wonderful and terrible things will happen. Simply remember to breath.

There are two motives for writing a book: one, that you may save what you know, the other, that you may share what you know with the public.

The best thing about being a writer is that ‘work’ is always something you love, plus usually accompanied by tea, coffee and cakes of some sort.

A friendship with the Lord will sustain you in difficult times.

Nerd life is just so much better than regular life.

I’ve always had a vivid imagination in terms of storytelling, but thankfully I learned early on that imagination can be stifled or enhanced by one’s writing ability—what I call word work. My goal from then...

Finally… I’m here…

Some people are born to survive. No matter what comes their way, no matter how much pain is dealt them, they live.” ~Mercy~

I’ve long considered becoming a writer to be the death of nightmares. For me at least, since I started writing I hadn’t had any. Something really terrible or awful happens in a dream and you...

Always write exactly what you’re feeling at the exact moment when writing something like poetry or an emotional novel. Put yourself, pour all emotions into your work…make yourself cry, feel joy if you are writing...

As a writer, you must truly possess a love for words.””Yes, that’s right,” I agreed.”I’ve noticed that some authors favor particular words, making frequent use of them. Do you have a favorite?”I nodded assuredly and...

In my experience, when a woman’s cruelty is combined with love and devotion, it is almost always without exception an act performed not out of treachery, but as a painful self-sacrifice for the good of...

I wish life were a fiction novel. Then everyone would have to do what I say.

An author is like a jeweller, with words as their gemstones and imagination the precious metals.

Fiction writers, at least in their braver moments, do desire the truth: to know it, speak it, serve it. But they go about it in a peculiar and devious way, which consists in inventing persons,...