He wondered fleetingly how many people who sat alone for hours as they scribbled their stories practiced talking about their work during their coffee breaks….

If insanity is defined as doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results – then success is insanity squared!(2012 SCBWI New Member Conference; Richmond, VA)

Film and novel characters are often stereotyped, but racial stereotyping in many novels or films creates & encourages labelling, discrimination & racism. ~Angelica Hopes

Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.

By their very nature, idiots do not have the intellectual capacity to identify genius. All that idiots are mentally equipped to recognize are other idiots.

What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on...

i want to bleed ink and shit prose.

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

I’m not interested in the reviews by critics over the age of 15.

There’s an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine — “Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is like wanting to meet a duck because you like p...

To most, being locked away in solitary with nothing but pen and paper would prove a hard punishment. What a strange creature who views this as heaven.

That’s another argument for writing: making something that outlasts you.

Meeting writers is always so disappointing. I got over wanting to meet live writers quite a long time ago. There is this terrific book that has changed your life, and then you meet the author,...

You might lose battles in your life time. However, every person that stands bravely on the side of justice, for people that have no voice, wins the true battle—Gods.

I’m going to be a person who writes stories.I never told mom and dad how much I loved them.I wanna be someone who can tell a lot of people how much I love them.

I never read prefaces, and it is not much good writing things just for people to skip. I wonder other authors have never thought of this.

Say something worthwhile and people will listen.

Nobody can be more clownish, more clumsy and sententiously in bad taste than Herman Melville.

In the end, what makes a book valuable is not the paper it’s printed on, but the thousands of hours of work by dozens of people who are dedicated to creating the best possible reading...

Jack Kerouac died after throwing up blood. The malt liquor. Then that other guy who shot his wife in the head. Burroughs somebody. And I wonder about literary figures. They’re all drunk and staggering and...

The only man she ever loved. And hated.

We really learn only from those books that we cannot judge. The author of a book that we were able to judge would have to learn from us.

But writers and their woes: they couldn’t be parted. Not for anything.

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

A writer is simply one who writes words, Even if just 1 person reads it your work, or a 100, or 1million or 100,000 You are a writer.

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

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

I am a perfectionist in spirit

I don’t know much about creative writing programs. But they’re not telling the truth if they don’t teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal...

Great writers experience their dreams. They put them on paper, where others can read about them.

The approach to digital culture I abhor would indeed turn all the world’s books into one book, just as Kevin (Kelly) suggested. It might start to happen in the next decade or so. Google and...

I’m not a stranger,” I said, and pointed to his book. “I’m someone who reads the same authors you do.

Only the writers can change or fix the past by going back to edit old works

Avoid the RTP Syndrome. When you rush to Publish, you rush to mistakes and chaos. Guaranteed.

The burning point of paper was the moment where I knew that I would have to remember this. Because people would have to remember books, if other people burn them or forget them. We will...

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...

When you are falling short in vocabulary to explain the emotion in your story.Than you are writing the right story

We need to boost each other to get to the top. It is much more effective than stepping on each other.

If you were born with the ability to change someone’s perspective or emotions, never waste that gift. It is one of the most powerful gifts God can give—the ability to influence.

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.