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...

The only way you can truly get to know an author is through the trail of ink he leaves behind him. The person you think you see is only an empty character: truth is always...

An author who gives a manager or publisher any rights in his work except those immediately and specifically required for its publication or performance is for business purposes an imbecile.

Authors must spend months, years making fantasy believable in a single work while reality runs rampant and complete chaos elsewhere.

What do you want to write? What gets your goat? What irks you to no length? If you could change the world with words, what would they be?

I will continue to write what I love to read, and the fact that it doesn’t sell as well as romance or sci-fi or fantasy isn’t the point.

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

Rows and rows of books lined the shelves and I let my eyes linger on the sturdy spines, thinking how human books were, so full of ideas and images, worlds imagined, worlds perceived; full of...

We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers – thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams.

Never give up, Never surrender!!!!!If you think you can’t, then you must, if you must, then you can..Tony Robbins

Copywriters, journalists, mainstream authors, ghostwriters, bloggers and advertising creatives have as much right to think of themselves as good writers as academics, poets, or literary novelists.

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

People visit exposed and vulnerable; writers live there

An author simply comes up with a hypothetical question, and then spends eight months and 80 thousands words to come up with a believable lie to answer it

Not everyone will like what you write but there’s a certain group who’ll love what you write. Keep WRITING for them.

Words raced thru his mind and his fingers ached to capture them all on paper.

Readers are often fans of Authors, but I, myself, am a fan of readers. They are the ones who breathe life into the pages that we give birth to, after all.

I don’t remember ever signing up for weird. It just sort of happened.

Authors are but the instrument to be played. The art is inside them, but many people help create it.

Many believe creativity is mystery, and I always knew that my body is the key.

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.

Authors always carry a means for scribbling and an excuse for pausing, often inopportunely, to record those fleeting sparks of creative fancy that might otherwise vanish like a wisp in the wind if ignored. Writing...