Write something simple like water, it will have the power to change you and the world.

Sing the song that only you can sing, write the book that only you can write, build the product that only you can build… live the life that only you can live.

Before you ask for readers, write the article you wish you could read. Before you ask for the sale, create the product you wish you had. Before you need support, be the supportive friend. Before...

I couldn’t write—or wouldn’t write, at any rate—unable to face the grueling self-scrutiny that fiction demands

You have to follow your own voice. You have to be yourself when you write. In effect, you have to announce, ‘This is me, this is what I stand for, this is what you get...

Life has sadness, joy, beauty, like poetry.So be passionate and write a great story.

Love is wind for the soul

A veces tengo la impresión de que escribo por simple curiosidad intensa. Es que, al escribir, me entrego a las sorpresas más inesperadas. Es a la hora de escribir que muchas veces me vuelvo consciente...

When I write, my soul sings.

You need to establish a degree of privacy and solitude in order to write

To be a writer you have to write — and no academic degree is going to do the writing for you.

When you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But when you write a novel, it’s yours.

The urge to create a fictional narrative is a mysterious one, and when an idea comes, the writer’s sense of what a story wants to be is only vaguely visible through the penumbra of inspiration.

Live inside your stories, yes, but do not hide behind them.

I read to know the past, I write to express my love for the future.

Roasted Roadkill and Hitchhiker’s Surprise” (this recipe is a secret concoction handed down from my great grandfather to my grandfather, who told it to my dad just before he ran him over).

The Genie declared that in his time and place there were scientists of the passions who maintained that language itself, on the one hand, originated in ‘infantile pregenital erotic exuberance, polymorphously perverse,’ and that conscious...

You should really stay true to your own style. When I first started writing, everybody said to me, ‘Your style just isn’t right because you don’t use the really flowery language that romances have.’ My...

You need that pride in yourself, as well as a sense, when you are sitting on Page 297 of a book, that the book is going to be read, that somebody is going to care....

Dream on it, think on it, ink on it, speak on it… then proceed to bring on it. Fulfillment is ordered to find you. Shine time!

Only write a story that only you can write.

Lack of courage is what makes big dreams to sit in the ink of the paper instead of them running in the shoes of actions. Without courage, you remain a dreamer!

For a poet, it will be terrible if there are no women. He will not have anything to write about.

Bestseller doesn’t necessarily mean good writer. I think it takes 10,000 book sales to make the bestseller’s list, and at about 9 dollars a pop for my book, if I had an extra $90,000 dollars...

The more I write the more I learn about writing. It is easy to say what looks good or sound good on paper until you experience it for yourself.

When a day goes by and I haven’t written anything, I better have been doing something worth writing about.

A writer writes knowing that nothing else will elicit the same kind of satisfaction and personal triumph as molding the written word into a reader’s great experience.

I want to write a book like a cloud that changes as it goes.

Don’t quit. It’s very easy to quit during the first 10 years. Nobody cares whether you write or not, and it’s very hard to write when nobody cares one way or the other. You can’t...

My goal is not to have everlasting fame, it is simply to write the stories that are asking me to write them and to share them with the people that want to hear them.

Write about the beauties of life to create a beautiful society.

Your flesh is not a reflection of your soul. So when you look in the mirror, remember that your light outshines your flaws.

You must feel it from within. You must want to write the book. You must desire to write the book

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

I write as if I’ve lived a lot of things I haven’t lived.

I don’t want the words to be naked the way they are in faxes or in the computer. I want them to be covered by an envelope that you have to rip open in order...

When he got a story urge, there was nothing to do but grab a pen and write. Otherwise it was too much like getting a hard-on and not jerking off.

Write as if no one is going to read it.

Your writing should be filled with simple complexities and complex simplicities. Because that is life.

I wanted to write something that made no linear sense. None. Zero. Something that was 87% pure nonsense, 12% pure alcohol, and 3% orange juice, for a chaser. That formula is accurate, give or take...

What I like most about reading is I can read in minutes what it took the author hours to write. What I like most about writing is readers can read in minutes what it took...

I wrote you a love letter. I used invisible ink to show I was being transparent with my feelings. And also to hide my feelings.

I write to forget the days that broke me into a million nights.

I keep a diary in order to enter the wonderful secrets of my life. If I didn’t write them down, I should not probably forget all about them.

When you imagine it, feel it, then write it – creation is inevitable.

When a poet settled down to write a poem, could he foresee the lines he would write? Did his head constantly spin with riddles and rhymes and was his only job to put them down?...

Life is how you brew it. Wake up, you have a story to tell. Don’t chase vain glory, your story will tell it. You owe it to yourself to write the lines of your story...

The ink in the pen that writes success stories is “FOCUS”…

Love allows us to remember the joy, and forget the pain. That’s why I write things down, to help me remember.

I don’t write like this in order to show how clever and well read I am–though I am rather clever and well read as a matter of fact.