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.

Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes.

What is it about us lady authors and our fascination for the exclamation mark?

A bestseller is a book written by a rich person of Indian roots staying in Europe for more than a decade..

The same Andrew Smith is in all these books, but for me, I feel like you can see the point in his writing where he decided he no longer had anything to lose. That, to...

We all dream dreams of unity, of purity; we all dream that there’s an authoritative voice out there that will explain things, including ourselves. If it wasn’t for our longing for these things, I doubt...

Writers are like tricksters. Their words lure us to embark on journeys and unlock our emotions.

Don’t you love that about the novel? The capaciousness?” he said.

An increasing number of people are taking advantage of having a leg up on their competition by branding themselves as “the expert” in their particular niche. Call it a business card, a resume, a billboard,...

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...

To say that Agatha Christie’s characters are cardboard cut-outs is an insult to cardboard cut-outs.

I think a great many people would enjoy doing what I did, and that is why they enjoy books and movies (and even TV shows these days) that feature Torture and Dismemberment, etc., etc., etc.

I live within my daydreams and nightmares; through that, I have learned to create, and I never cease from doing so.

When you get some free time, write. When you get some lazy time, plan. When you get down time, world build. When your time comes, shine!

Many are never satisfied. They always want more ; and then when they get more, they are still not content. I think mostly because they are trying to keep up with others. You have to...

An Authorpreneur focuses on establishing one’s brand to the consumer using different avenues to promote their work.

I have witness the stars brighterthan a poet can create a simpleton world. Shall we write ‘until death do us part.

We live, all of us, in sprung rhythm. Even in cities, folk stir without knowing it to the surge in the blood that is the surge and urgency of season. In being born, we have...

I write because writing is power. Writing is creation. When you write, you are as a god, a deity wielding his pen like some Harry Potter staff, making whatever you want to happen, happen. By...

The American critic Dale Peck, author of Hatchet Jobs (2004), argues that reviewing finds its true character in critical GBH such as Fischer’s [review of Martin Amis’s Yellow Dog]. It represents a return to the...

I can’t overstate how little I knew about myself at 22, or how little I’d thought about what I was doing. When I graduated from college I genuinely believed that the creative life was the...

My favourite authors are Milan Kundera and Jeanette Winterson.

It’s a phenomenal experience jumping from the devious mind of a sorceress bent on conquering the world to the compassionate musing of a queen capable of healing life with a touch—all in a flicker of...

Zafar argues that the greatest influence on a writer may be on her psychic dispositions as a writer. Reading Philip Roth, writes Zafar, might clear the way of inhibitions that held you back from writing...

If you can read & write then the opportunities are endless, if you just believe in yourself then anything is possible, you can become anyone and do anything, what’s more is, you can take others...

A brilliant mind was first a listener that observed the actions of the people that loved and hated them, then found a way to express their feelings, when real communication was lost.

There were the usual exhortations to purity – think of the novel not as your opportunity to get rich or famous but to wrestle, in your own way, with the titans of the form –...

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.

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.

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.