The life we’re given is on a thread, so wear it well.

… in art nothing is more secondary than the author’s intentions.

How do I get inspired? Life.

Sandra L. West and Aberjhani have compiled an encyclopedia that makes an important contribution to our need to know more about one of modern America’s truly significant artistic and cultural movements. It helps us to...

What is hell to a writer? Hell is being too busy to find the time to write or being unable to find the inspiration. Hell is suddenly finding the words but being away from your...

Teams that spend a lot of time learning the tricks of the trade will probably never really learn the trade.

The fact of the matter is that you should really stop concerning yourself with writing a book because anyone can write a book that totally sucks. There is nothing special about that.

Failing to writer everyday doesn’t mean that you’ve given up, though a chapter a day – keeps writers block away!

An idiot child screaming in a hospital.” (on George Bernard Shaw)

The greatest tragedy to ever happen to a nation is not the incidences of war or terrorism. It’s when more bookshops close down and more drinking bars are opened to replace them!

What doesn’t kill us gives us something new to write about.

The Best Deal Is The One Where Everyone Walks Away Happy!

She would keep playing the role of the winner as long as the audience believed her.

What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers.

I find that is the best way to write during emotional scenes…put yourself and your emotions in every single word.-Nina Jean Slack

It wouldn’t matter if he was a bad boy , if you got rid of your bad habit. Be encouraged

Getting a spark of inspiration to write is the best feeling in the world, no matter what time it is…I get a feeling on the inside that urges me to get up from whatever I...

If you have a dream, don’t just sit there. Gather courage to believe that you can succeed and leave no stone unturned to make it a reality.

The irony of rule followers is they often quote a lot of people that do not follow as many rules as they do.

Let your passion bleed through your work. No one cares how much you know until they know how much you care.

Authors write books for one, and only one, reason: because we like to torture people.

If you cannot judge a book by its cover, surely we should not judge an author by one book alone?

There was, in my view, an unwritten contract with the reader that the writer must honour. No single element of an imagined world or any of its characters should be allowed to dissolve on an...

I often said that writers are of two types.There is the architect, which is one type. The architect, as if designing a building, lays out the entire novel at a time. He knows how many...

To write a good book, you must read one book for each page of the book you are about to write.

Volume III of Principia Mathematica entitled, The System of the World, available shortly, where books are sold.

As individuals, great writers from Villon to Diderot to Voltaire toRousseau to Byron or Shelley have often shown themselves to beirresponsible, selfish, mean or sometimes even cowardly people. Their lives were drab or self destructive...

I did it” moment where your mind releases these wonderful stimulators that make you feel awesome. You see yourself in a different way and this opens up a greater opportunity for accomplishment, achievement, and success.

Writers possess magic. It’s in their words. They compose phrases as powerful as incantations, creating illusions in the minds of readers. These spells make eyes envision things that aren’t real; they make hearts feel things...

Crippled and crazy, we hobble toward the finish line, pen in hand.

Write something worth reading and your voice will be heard.

all that really matters to me is that there are critics.

I like to read books one after another. Immerse myself in a book, and then immerse myself in the next book, and just keep going until there aren’t any more books left to swim in....

Always being truthful gives you a certain kind of freedom. It springs forth like a fountain splashing throughout your body until it floods your soul. To be honest and to be trustworthy are great attributes....

If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first greatest, of course,...

People don’t read to enlighten themselves or seek to gain some valuable insight into their own psychology. People read to escape.

Writers don’t make any money at all. We make about a dollar. It is terrible. But then again we don’t work either. We sit around in our underwear until noon then go downstairs and make...

i want to never settle for anything less than my soul on paper.

Every word she writes is a lie, including ‘and’ and ‘the’.”(on Lillian Hellman)

Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.BY ORDER...

Writers are nothing more than borderline schizophrenics who are able to control the voices.

Socially interacting with a storyteller can be a frustrating challenge because a portion of her awareness is constantly sorting through the details of a developing book. And while you may successfully engage in a meaningful...

Since when did books ever solve anything? They only raise more questions than they answer, otherwise they’re just fucking entertainment, and I am not here to fucking entertain you.

There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn’t true!

Every author believes, when his first book is published, that those that acclaim it are his personal friends or impersonal peers, while its revilers can only be envious rogues and nonentities.

Your whole life and the story of your journey is the landscape picture on the front of the box of a 1,000 piece puzzle. The pieces are each a small sticky note that ends in...

A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.

Book sense makes sense because someone has gone through it before and able to share it with you. Your job is to listen and discern.

Writers aren’t exactly people, they’re a bunch of people trying to be one person.

The only thing in life that’s really interesting is the contest. We are all contestants–whether we admit it or not. If I read 20 pages of a book and they’re no good, I put it...