I swooned again – I had that moment of falling in love with reading again.

To say that a writer’s hold on reality is tenuous is an understatement-it’s like saying the Titanic had a rough crossing. Writer’s build their own realities, move into them and occasionally send letters home. The...

Books are the most important of all my possessions. They capture the thoughts, feelings, dreams and lives of their authors, welcoming us into their worlds and inspiring us to emulate their adventures.

The pen to a writer is like a cigarette to a smoker; they need it to take the edge off.

The standard personality type for a writer is a shy megalomaniac.

Writers and artists know that ethereal moment, when just one, fleeting something–a chill, an echo, the click of a lamp, a question—-ignites the flame of an entire work that blazes suddenly into consciousness.

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.

A good response beats a bad reaction any day. Be encouraged

Love what is simple and beautiful. These are the essentials.

An old book was a time capsule. When you opened the front cover, you opened a door to another world—a world accessible through a kind of looking glass made of hard-board and cloth. The author’s...

Honesty is vulnerability. Sadly, not everyone can handle someone’s honesty. However, lying allows people to be comfortable.

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

If you want to find out if someone is a true bookworm or not, give them a thousand page novel and see what happens.

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The closer one gets to the speed of light, the slower time travels. The exact thing is true when completing a book.

Some writers need to sink in order to feel what their characters feel; in order to write their characters with the truest feeling possible. Those closest to those writers end up feeling the effects of...

I’ve got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen.

If you could describe my son in 3 words, what would you say? – Sweet. Cute. Funny. – That could be a description of a puppy she says dryly.

Q: I want to be an author when I grow up. Am I insane?”Neil Gaiman: “Yes. Growing up is highly overrated. Just be an author.”[Jumbo.com, 21 August 2012]

When the vision fill yours mind and passio hits your gut, the need to write it down cannot be stifled.

The novelist is condemned to wander all his life. Homeless and blind like Oedipus he wanders until death. And so let us protect the novelist and adore him, with pity, honor, and love.

You had to admire a guy who called his own new book a classic before it was published and anyone else had a chance to read it.

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

they say that girls are the ones who want fairy tail endings, but then again, who are the authors of fairy tales? mostly men…

Writing a complete novel is time consuming, frustrating, nerve wrecking, and most of the time your work is under valued, under appreciated, and taken for granted. So why do authors do it? Because not writing...

Despite the fact that he loves books and owns a bookstore, A.J. does not particularly care for writers. He finds them to be unkempt, narcissistic, silly, and generally unpleasant people. He tries to avoid the...

Changing imagination into fiction is what I love to do.

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

Non fiction? Non fiction?! Listen, reality is what got me into this mess in the first place.

Authors: The only people you thank for leaving you emotionally devastated.

I never reread what I’ve written. I’m far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I’ve done.

Show me you care about our common tongue. Bring to your [writing] passion, deeply informed by knowledge of your subject. Stay me, not with apples and flagons, but with wit and grace, humor and intense...

Some build their castles ‘mid thunderbolts and fireworks. My worlds take shape in silence.

Writers and other artists are mostly just historians, produced by nature to describe, decipher and thus historically represent the universe.

what do you want for nothing?” The buyer does not waive his right to express his opinion.”[Thick Skin and Bad Reviews, Blog post, June 26, 2013]

Never annoy an inspirational author or you will become the poison in her pen and the villian in every one of her books.

Most people don’t have real friends. You have people in your life waiting for opportunities to see what YOU can do for them.

Contemporary writers annoyed him, he found their worlds insular, their style too self-conscious and ironic. Theirs was not a literature that belonged to him.

An idea is a gift, a finished project is turning that gift into a book by making yourself write even when you don’t want to. There is no such thing as a block of time...

Be the CEO of your own career.

Kerouac lacks discipline, intelligence, honesty and a sense of the novel. His rhythms are erratic, his sense of character is nil, and he is as pretentious as a rich whore, sentimental as a lollypop.

The only time I’ve ever learned anything from a review was when John Lanchester wrote a piece in the Guardian about my second novel, The Heather Blazing. He said that, together with the previous novel,...

All Jane Austen novels have a common storyline: an attractive and virtuous young woman surmounts difficulties to achieve marriage to the man of her choice. This is the age-long convention of the romantic novel, but...

In order to be heard, an author must have readers…

Stop worshiping the bad in boys and start recognizing the good in men

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

For writers, handing a manuscript off to an editor is like walking into a parole hearing. You’ve done the time but wonder if it’s going to satisfy the judge.

Every writer dreams about the day they can step into their fiction and wander its hallways.

This book is shit and don’t read it” if they want. If they want to write a review entirely about how much they hate the cover, they can if they want. If they want to...

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person’s...