It is, of course, not only impossible for readers to know the intention of most, if not all, writers, but an author himself may think he is writing one thing while he is in fact...

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

Grabbing readers by the imagination is a writer’s job.

Fiction and non-fiction are only different techniques of story telling. For reasons I do not fully understand, fiction dances out of me. Non-fiction is wrenched out by the aching, broken world I wake up to...

Having to amuse myself during those earlier years, I read voraciously and widely. Mythic matter and folklore made up much of that reading—retellings of the old stories (Mallory, White, Briggs), anecdotal collections and historical investigations...

Hard core authors are determined about their craft, and they know that building a brand entails hard work. They eat, breathe and live their writing.:

The finder of his theme will be at no loss for words.

An author really ought to have nothing but flowers in the room where he works.

problem” is to vex, annoy, threaten or harrass them, you are almost certainly a bigger asshole.6. You may also be twelve.7. You are not responsible for anyone else’s actions or karma, but you are responsible...

When many story-tellers occupy themselves with a social world which offers no great variety of lively action, their stories will probably resemble one another as to many of the major incidents, and if they draw...

A demon, who serves to a warlock, begins tormenting his master, if he has not enough work. Talent is the demon.

Authors are the closest thing man would come to understanding God. It is a remarkable thing to conjure up a life and create its story.

Am reading more of Oscar Wilde. What a tiresome, affected sod.

I enjoy self-publishing & sending publishers rejection letters. They’re like, ‘Who is this guy?’ And I’m like, ‘the end of your industry.

Author? Author? Did you write these legs?”Yes.”‘Well, I don’t like dem. I don’t like ’em at all at all. I could ha’ writted better legs meself.

The most intriguing people you will encounter in this life are the people who had insights about you, that you didn’t know about yourself.

The word ‘NO’ is the best motivation there is for the storyteller in you.

Authors, he thought. Even the sane ones are nuts.

The best way of writing sex scenes is to do the first draft, orgasm, and then start editing. You can be objective post-orgasm.

I don’t think writers compete, I think they’re all doing separate things in their own style.

Being a bestseller doesnt mean they wrote a great book. Just means they knew a lot of people who would buy it.

As with men, it has always seemed to me that books have their own peculiar destinies. They go towards the people who are waiting for them and reach them at the right moment. They are...

David had left her,taking his insane jealousy with him.

My Aunt Dahlia, who runs a woman’s paper called Milady’s Boudoir, had recently backed me into a corner and made me promise to write her a few words for her “Husbands and Brothers” page on...

When authors write from personal experiences,straight from the heart,it touches the readers. Their work speaks out to all who read it,and most of the time,people can relate to what was written. I have always believed...

One of the smartest things one can do in life sometimes…is play stupid. Be encouraged

Is China a drug? Like any drug, it depends entirely on the user’s own state of mind. If we’re making metaphors, for old China hands I’d imagine their time here draws parallels with the soaring...

Let us record the atoms as they fall upon the mind in the order in which they fall, let us trace the pattern, however disconnected and incoherent in appearance, which each sight or incident scores...

When I write, I fall into the zone many writers, painters, musicians, athletes, and craftsmen of all sorts seem to share: In doing something I enjoy and am expert at, deliberate thought falls aside and...

Of all the advantages that ghostwriting offers, one of the greatest must be the opportunity that you get to meet people of interest.

One man is as good as another until he has written a book.

Free time is a terrible thing to waste. Read a book.

The only way to write is to write. Writers write. And when they’ve written, they write some more.

A strong positive mind is an unbreakable shield against all negative forces and experiences. It never bargains for anything that goes against its true destiny in life. It sees life as an inevitable journey of...

I want my list of works to be lean and mean and everything was urgent and had to be done. Nothing to play the market. My family’s had to suffer for that, that I haven’t...

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You are in love with my husband. You need some acting lessons to learn to hide it better.

The out-dated imagery of sitting over a dusty typewriter staring at blank pages for years is a fallacy and probably designed to keep you from living up to your fullest potential.

I am an Author a person who plays with words so they can dance in the minds of others

Many people are partial to the notion that . . . all writers are somehow mere vessels for Truth and Beauty when they compose. That we are not really in control. This is a variation...

Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.

I write to believe in goodness.

Big writers become a kind of shared climate.

Authors were shy, unsociable creatures, atoning for their lack of social aptitude by inventing their own companions and conversations.

This is the best time to be an author.

Take’th my temple and cut it into little stars, placed carefully to the face of heaven and the world will shine.

You have the privilege of presenting a picture of what heaven will be like to those around you.

In my imagination, the Editor meditated in a mountain-cave, espoused the rules of grammar, and frowned upon speculative fiction.

For obvious reasons, the relationship between novelists, the reviewing establishment and critics in general is chronically, and often acutely, edgy. A kind of low-intensity warfare prevails, with outbreaks of savagery. It is partly an ownership...

You’re asking the cyborg fugitive and the wild animal to be the welcoming committee? That’s adorable.