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

Finding your passion is the key to your success. – Tracy Kauffman

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

The Americans, who are the most efficient people on the earth, have carried [phrase-making] to such a height of perfection and have invented so wide a range of pithy and hackneyed phrases that they can carry on an amusing and animated conversation without giving a moment’s reflection to what they are saying and so leave...

[Science fiction is] out in the mainstream now. You can tell by the way mainstream literary authors pillage SF while denying they’re writing it!

A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

Writing novels is not an illness that need be recovered from. It is my work; it is what I do.

I am quite scandalous, you see. I come packaged with unpredictable moments, brutal honesty, calamitous outbursts, the ghastly need for love, a fiendish lack of filter, the horrific need to question everything, nauseating affection, offensive kindness, indecent spirituality, obscene beauty, monstrous creativity, barbaric embellishments, contemptuous passion, sinful childhood traumas, unscrupulous hobbies, vexatious caring, abominable sensitivity,...

When I write, I fall into the zone many writers, painters, musicians, athletes, and craftsmen of all sorts seem to share: In doing something I enjoy and am expert at, deliberate thought falls aside and it is all just THERE. I think of the next word no more than the composer thinks of the next...

Intelligence is not expecting people to understand what your intent is; it is anticipating how it will be perceived.

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.

Sometimes your light shines so bright that it blinds people from seeing who you really are.

Grabbing readers by the imagination is a writer’s job.

Authors, reviews are not for you. They are not for you. Authors, reviews are not for you.

I am reading Henry James… and feel myself as one entombed in a block of smooth amber.

The world’s greatest achievers have been those who have always stayed focussed on their goals and have been consistent in their efforts.

You ever try holding, say, even a single chapter of a novel in your head? Consciously? All at once?

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 conversation with her, an additional part of her mind is frantically sifting through descriptive lines to be used if ever...

I’m contemplating if book sales and promotions can actually be rigged like so many other things in our everyday lives?

A Million Copies Sold,” did you ever wonder who bought them?

Intercourse is one thing, Intimacy is everything. Be encouraged

I see God now as an unimaginative writer of popular fictions, someone who builds stories around sadistic and graceless plots, narratives that exist only to express His terror of a woman’s power to choose who and how to love, to redefine love as she sees fit, not as God thinks it ought to be. The...

I love words. I crave descriptions that overwhelm my imagination with vivid detail. I dwell on phrases that make my heart thrum. I cherish expressions that pierce my emotions and force the tears to spill over. In essence, I long for a writer’s soul sealed in ink on the page.

When authors write from personal experiences,straight from the heart,it touches the readers. Their work speaks out to all who read it,and most of the time,people can relate to what was written. I have always believed that books can change people’s lives. Especially ones where the author is sincere,and writes deep,thoughtful,touching things from their hearts.”-Nina Jean...

We as authors sign a pact with our readers; they’ll go on reading because they trust us to play fair with them and deliver what we’ve promised.

Art is a conversation we are all invited to and are all worthy to participate in. Yes, great works can be intimidating, but no one else in the world has what you have—your voice, your eyes, your feeling and perspective. Other people have written great books, but no one else will ever write YOUR book....

I’ve always said “Writer’s Block” is a myth. There is no such thing as writer’s block, only writers trying to force something that isn’t ready yet. Sometimes I don’t write for weeks. And then all of the sudden I’ll get a rush of inspiration and you can’t drag me away from my notebook. But I...

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

I am hard at work on the second draft … Second draft is really a misnomer as there are a gazillion revisions, large and small, that go into the writing of a book.

I suspect that most authors don’t really want criticism, not even constructive criticism. They want straight-out, unabashed, unashamed, fulsome, informed, naked praise, arriving by the shipload every fifteen minutes or so.

You may think novelists always have fixed plans to which they work, so that the future predicted by Chapter One is always inexorably the actuality of Chapter Thirteen. But novelists write for countless different reasons: for money, for fame, for reviewers, for parents, for friends, for loved ones; for vanity, for pride, for curiosity, for...

The out-dated imagery of sitting over a dusty typewriter staring at blank pages for years is a fallacy and probably designed to keep you from living up to your fullest potential.

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

Writer’s block’ is just a fancy way of saying ‘I don’t feel like doing any work today.

My Aunt Dahlia, who runs a woman’s paper called Milady’s Boudoir, had recently backed me into a corner and made me promise to write her a few words for her “Husbands and Brothers” page on “What the Well-Dressed Man is Wearing”. I believe in encouraging aunts, when deserving; and, as there are many worse eggs...

People always try to make self-published authors feel insignificant. I have more respect for self-published authors, because I know the adversity they faced. They didn’t just write a manuscript, query letter, and blam book deal. These authors had to do it the difficult way. There is no publisher, or agents, investing time, and money into...

Quotes exceed authors’ lifespan.

The man she wanted existed only in the romantic novels she was reading. She had met him. But he would never meet her.

You are in love with my husband. You need some acting lessons to learn to hide it better.

A shrink and a patient in a love-hate relationship. Who is REALLY the boss?

All that sweetness makes me feel weird. My sister was never the loving type.

That woman must have been a husky in a previous life.

The only man she ever loved. And hated.

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

A witer’s mind is NEVER silent. It is always conducting the next symphony of words.

Only a few short years ago, the average stay-at-home mom spent her relaxation time reading Jackie Collins and staring at the pool boy. Now, half of them are outselling Jackie Collins writing porn about the pool boy.The other half are writing reviews of them.”[Surviving in the Amazon Jungle – How authors and reviewers can co-exist...

…he was after all, a novelist…and a novelist was simply a fellow who got paid to tell lies. The bigger the lies, the better the pay.

The Princess BrideS. Morgenstern’sClassic Tale of True Loveand High AdventureYou had to admire a guy who called his own new book a classic before it was published and anyone had a chance to read it.

Is China a drug? Like any drug, it depends entirely on the user’s own state of mind. If we’re making metaphors, for old China hands I’d imagine their time here draws parallels with the soaring euphoria and bleak depths of smoking opium, while China for the uninitiated is probably a bit like bath salts: the...

He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.”(on Ernest Hemingway