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.

One of the most difficult things when you were trying to navigate the world of books was dealing with all the unreliable authors. They were so unbelievably tricky to keep track of. An author might...

And you will not hurt him anymore. Not one of you. Because I am his protector. His rear guard. I am his” -Tara Reese

And I knew in my bones that Emily Dickinson wouldn’t have written even one poem if she’d had two howling babies, a husband bent on jamming another one into her, a house to run, a...

I’ve always said “Writer’s Block” is a myth. There is no such thing as writer’s block, only writers trying to force something that isn’t ready yet. Sometimes I don’t write for weeks. And then all...

I believe that everyone has a story to tell. The problem that is inherent to most aspiring authors is that they struggle with getting the story from their head to the page.

I believe that half the trouble in the world comes from people asking ‘What have I achieved?’ rather than ‘What have I enjoyed?’ I’ve been writing about a subject I love as long as I...

I’m a struggling writer, I’m struggling to convince people I’m a writer.

If there was any great lesson in life it was this: No battle was ever won with silence.

ATTENTION ALL AUTHORS: Be very careful who you give acknowledgement to in your books. Reason: That acknowledgement is in permanent, ink and they are forever associated with you, that book and your name. -Word to...

When I want to read a novel, I write one.

One piece of wisdom a writer quickly learns ~ typos keep you humble.

If you fall in love with a character, then you are actually falling in love with the author that wrote the character. Therefore, you could conclude that if you are said author, you are in...

It’s better not to know authors personally, because the real person never corresponds to the image you form of him from reading his books.

I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that’s made by one person, but that’s not true… Every reading of a book is a collaboration between the reader and the writer who are making...

It’ll be a change,” says Marcus. “Something different.””Not a mystery.”Marcus laughs. “No. Not a mystery. Just a nice safe history.”Ah, my darling. But there is no such thing.

Writer’s block is when your imaginary friends won’t talk to you.

I’m an author. We don’t want to lead. We don’t need to follow. We stay home and make stuff up and write it down and send it out into the world, and get inside people’s...