Write at a pace that doesn’t surpass your creative flow. Don’t be hasty; don’t be sloppy. Don’t forfeit impressive writing for an impressive word count. Because eventually it will all have to be edited, and...

A writer needs to ingest love to be passionate. Passion is a metabolite of love, and good writing is an active metabolite of passion.

Bad writing is more than a matter of shit syntax and faulty observation; bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal to tell stories about what people actually do― to face the fact, let us...

So much of what we read nowadays is there one moment and gone the next. When you read something good, cherish it.

And feast on the dead, I thought with a shudder. As if he could read my thoughts, he pressed a hand to my shoulder. His fingers were long and white, splaying over my arm like...

After his initial homecoming week, after he’d been taken to a bunch of sights by his cousins, after he’d gotten somewhat used to the scorching weather and the surprise of waking up to the roosters...

She smiled. “How…cute.” She chose the word rather like a candy, which she bit.

Good writing ain’t necessarily good reading.

It’s not always so easy,” she said softly.”Why not? It’s a part of who you are, isn’t it?” he asked with all the sympathy of an asp being prodded with a stick.

You can’t be a good writer in the States anymore because to be a good one you have to have a country where you can be poor and still eat, and still make your living...