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...

A hammer made of deadlines is the surest tool for crushing writer’s block.

Only a few short years ago, the average stay-at-home mom spent her relaxation time reading Jackie Collins and staring at the pool boy. Now, half of them are outselling Jackie Collins writing porn about the...

Writing romantic fiction is the second chance that loved ones denied us.

My fingers burn behind the keys of my typewriter, the lettering fading with every thoughtful strike. The many words I write I dare not stall; my mind perpetually alert for my magnum opus call.

There is probably no hell for authors in the next world–they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this one.

I hope for what I always hope for as a writer: a critical but kind reader. I think that is what we all hope for.

I am reading Proust for the first time. Very poor stuff. I think he was mentally defective.

Knowing that others want to read my writing is the greatest inspiration to write.

There is something silly about a man who wears a white suit all the time, especially in New York.” (on Tom Wolfe)

The man she wanted existed only in the romantic novels she was reading. She had met him. But he would never meet her.

It was one of the dullest speeches I ever heard. The Agee woman told us for three quarters of an hour how she came to write her beastly book, when a simple apology was all...

Always write exactly what you’re feeling at the exact moment when writing something like poetry or an emotional novel. Put yourself, pour all emotions into your work…make yourself cry, feel joy if you are writing...

Intercourse is one thing, Intimacy is everything. Be encouraged

Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind.

When male authors write love stories, the heroine tends to end up dead.

Some stories have to be written because no one would believe the absurdity of it all.