This was what I came to found. The conquest of loneliness was the missing link that was one day going to make a decent novelist out of me. If you are out here and cannot...

I know you would be watching over me all through this journey called life… whenever I look next to me, I feel like you arehere… and a part of you is within me in the...

An authors publication date never matters, a book not read yet will always be New”…

Writers possess magic. It’s in their words. They compose phrases as powerful as incantations, creating illusions in the minds of readers. These spells make eyes envision things that aren’t real; they make hearts feel things...

I spend a lot of time imagining things – in fact, you could say that imagining things is my job.

Sometimes you can write about a character’s day in under a minute and sometimes it takes a day just to write about a minute.

Fiction is overrated, Fly. We’ve discussed this. In the time it takes those novelist fuckers to contemplate a few poetic passages, a thousand kids die from malnutrition. Immediacy, man, that’s what counts.

A friend worth knowing tolerates your flaws while a friend worth keeping loves you in spite of them.

Love is something that is beyond us. We can’t anticipate love. When, where and with whom we fall in love is coincidental and wonderful for the same reason.

The novelist is more like a pregnant woman who delivers her own child unaided. A messy procedure, with lots of groaning.

I bleed words.I dream in narrative. I live in infinite worlds.I befriend figmental characters.I wish on stars in other galaxies.I harvest stories from a brooding muse.I bloom under moonlight in hushed seclusion.I am a writer.

On Twitter, people who had read my book followed me and I could see what else they were reading, why they’d liked what I’d written and by the by, more about them than I’d ever...

No matter how much enthusiasm and effort you put into writing, if you totally lack literary talent you can forget about being a novelist.

Being a novelist is not the sort of thing we can shut off. It infests every bit of us until we lose the boundary between Person and Writer, like one of those color charts where...

Sometimes I don’t even know why I’m writing what I’m writing…I’m just following these people around and taking notes.

Life is full of beautiful moments. Live your life to the fullest. And do what youlove.

On every page, confidence fights with self-doubt. Every sentence is an act of faith. Why would anybody want to do it?

On my website there’s a quote from the writer Anthony Burgess: “The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world...

For a novelist, the gaps in a story are as intriguing as material that still exists.

Not writing is never an option. This is not words of advice. It’s just literally never an option!

A warm sunny evening, the plash and gurgle of the waves in the rock pools, the rush of the cold gin. I thought for the first time of my novel, abandoned, all these years, and...

Çünkü bana göre siyaset, en sonunda bizim gibi olmayanları kararlılıkla anlamama, romancılık ise anlama işidir.

I guess it’s true: it’s difficult for men to understand women.

The novel should tell the truth, as I see the truth, or as the novelist persuades me to see it. And one more demand: I expect the novelist to aspire to improve the world. …...

Every exceptional writer holds a Master of Arts in Daydreaming.

Edinburgh is a comfortable puddle for a novelist.