… 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...

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

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

The most difficult thing about writing; is writing the first line.

An authors publication date never matters, a book not read yet will always be New”…

… And the only way to find that honesty is to not overthink it.For your writing to come alive–to be multi-dimensional–you must barter away some control.

Crazy people love their Kindles.

I write for the thirteen year old me who hated reading and craved something different than the boring literature I was forced to read for school. I write to see something I want to read...

There’s no such thing as ‘no market’. Some books are just niche orientated that’s all.

Sooner or later every writer evolves his own definition of a story.Mine is: A reflection of life plus beginning and end (life seems not to have either) and a meaning.

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....

The instruction here is not for every kind of writer – not for the writer of nurse books or thrillers or porno or the cheaper sort of sci-fi – though it is true that what...

I love snowflakes simply for the reason that each one is unique; nonidentical to zillions of crystalized counterparts. It’s a difficult notion to wrap your brain around, and yet it reminds me that amidst the...

I am too much of an imitator to be a true writer.

i would rather havefeelings without wordsthan words without feelings.

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

Writers had a way of redeeming everything that ever happens to them.

Well, writing novels is incredibly simple: an author sits down…and writes.Granted, most writers I know are a bit strange.Some, downright weird.But then again, you’d have to be.To spend hundreds and hundreds of hours sitting in...

Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.

Writer’s block, I just drove around it four times. All my favorite writers live there.

If my public existence does anything worthwhile, hopefully it at least demystifies the author a bit, because I know when I was younger I felt like authors were like wizards or something. Turns out they’re...

One of the things I have come up against time and again in my career is the notion that because a book is easy to read it was somehow easy to write.

I read your diary. I KNOW

Richard put away the Narnia books, convinced, sadly, that they were an allegory; that an author (whom he had trusted) had been attempting to slip something past him. He had had the same disgust with...

A hundred years ago, an average teenager knew countless authors, and, a sex position or two. Today, an average teenager knows countless sex positions, and, an author or two.

Grayson: Fiction is just a lie anyway.Brianna: But it’s not – it’s a different kind of truth – it would be your truth at the time of the writing, wouldn’t it?

All we can do is write, but its up to the reader to decide if we wrote masterpieces or empty silliness, and there is nothing you can do till another reader says different.

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

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

On the day the world is blown up, the playwright whose show opened the night before will be leafing past the news section of the Times to find his review–as he ascends through the stratosphere,...

A writer is never just looking out of a window or staring into space. They are building a universe to share with the world

No book worth its salt is meant to put you to sleep, it’s meant to make you jump out of your bed in your underwear and run and beat the author’s brains out.

Fool! Nothing but black ink runs through my veins!

What these critics forget is that printing presses in themselves provide no guarantee of an enlightened outcome. People, not machines, made the Renaissance. The printing that takes place in North Korea today, for instance, is...

I enjoy writing alone, naked and unbothered.

Not all marketing people are writers, but all writers must learn to be marketers.

Quotes exceed authors’ lifespan.

Professional writers don’t have muses; they have mortgages.

I have a great book. It’s called Stantasyland. Except I don’t have the money to buy a million copies to put it on the bestsellers list.

There is only two kind of #books .First one is by some #famous person and Second one makes a person #famous .

Love and respect are above any law

Are we not all books waiting for someone to pick us up and read the pages that people missed?

I’m often asked which author I am most inspired by, but I’m inspired by all authors. It takes a great deal of courage to pour your onto paper and watch silently as the world judges...

Good horror offers a sense of an upended, lawless world and that’s appealing to anyone who grew up feeling like an outsider.

I doubt if ever one ceases to love, but one can cease to be in love as easily as one can outgrow an author one admired as a boy.

The big trinity of publishing: mystery, thrillers and romance. If you can combine all three, then it’s a winner’s trifecta and you’ll be rich beyond your dreams.

It is not lack of ability, but lack of motivation, lack of focus, and lack of self-confidence that prevents most aspiring authors from finishing what they started.