Yes, its hard to write. But its harder not to.

Any magazine-cover hack can splash paint around wildly and call it a nightmare, or a witches sabbath or a portrait of the devil; but only a great painter can make such a thing really scare...

Write about the dream you see during consciousness.

Before I’ll take my clone on as a pupil in the craft of writing, he must prove his worthiness. He must write 100 thoughts down, of which 10 might be interesting. If he’s done that,...

If you have nothing to write your power of imagination is lost.

When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away – even if it’s only a glass of water. Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of...

I read so I might live a thousand lives in a lifetime. I write to control the particulars in those lives.

Write something worth reading and your voice will be heard.

I am the perfect version of me.

I want to write the Boston Marathon of run-on sentences. And since it’ll be so long, I’ll replace all the commas with the word Gatorade, to help push people through it.

There are no lungs like the ones that breathe poetry.

Write about the thing that scares you most or your most private confession and you’ll never have a problem coming up with decent fiction.

I write because sometimes I feel I cannot breathe…until I do.

He’s at the library, I think. Safe and sound in his world of books… Maybe he’ll write one someday.

Good writing is remembering detail. Most people want to forget. Don’t forget things that were painful or embarrassing or silly. Turn them into a story that tells the truth.

My characters are quite as real to me as so-called real people; which is one reason why I’m not subject to what is known as loneliness. I have plenty of company.

A novelist’s characters must be with him as he lies down to sleep, and as he wakes from his dreams. He must learn to hate them and to love them.

We’re all photojournalists now. It’s no longer enough just to write.

I write to express my love for the humanity.

I’ll write the first sentence in English and the second sentence will be nonsense translated to Russian, to make the ultimate non sequitur.

Ever since I could read, I’ve wanted to write a book. I never thought I had anything to write about. Maybe you don’t think this is worth writing about. But this book isn’t for you....

A writer out of loneliness is trying to communicate like a distant star sending signals. He isn’t telling, or teaching, or ordering. Rather, he seeks to establish a relationship with meaning, of feeling, of observing....

We write about ourselves because we know about ourselves.

I surround myself with books when I write, thus surrounding myself with writers… only they don’t critique me and then get up for coffee.

They could not write their names, but I can write mine, and I will again, somewhere where it will last for a long, long time. I will find Ky, and then I will find that...

A writer is like a gossiper who reveal secrets in a professional way.

When I write, I see the character inside out, not outside in.

If you have Microsoft Word, you can become a writer tonight. Just start typing!

writing is like being in love. You never get better at it or learn more about it. The day you think you do is the day you lose it. Robert Frost called his work a...

As long as music survives, poetry will never die.

In the twenty-first century, human minds, and to a lesser extent, human hearts can work like well calibrated precision instruments, but who can write the universal manual on imagination?

There is no greater feeling of accomplishment than to create a world that solely exists in your imagination and be able to pull someone into this hidden place inside of my thoughts. To make someone...

I wasn’t born to cook or clean,but to read and write,if you don’t like me the way I am,then go fly a kite.

Well, isn’t writing a sport? If you’re doing it right, and you have a deadline, you should be sweating.

The core of your true self is never lost. Let go of all the pretending and the becoming you’ve done just to belong.Curl up with your rawness and come home. You don’t have to find...

Actors are good liars, writers are good liars with good memories.

As writers we live life twice, like a cow that eats its food once and then regurgitates it to chew and digest it again. We have a second chance at biting into our experience and...

I write so the endangered thoughts roaming naked and vulnerable through the misty jungles of my mind aren’t slain by the guns of practical living.

As Harvard Business School professor Peter Bregman advises, ‘Don’t write a book, write a page…Don’t expect to be a great manager in your first six months, just try to set expectations well.

How do you write? You write, man, you write, that’s how…If you practice an art faithfully it will make you wise, and most writers can use a little wising up.

The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.

At the heart of the impulse to tell stories is a mystery so profound.

Bolts work on nuts; pens work on paper. But you must work on yourself. Go, get working!

Early on I set out to write the next Great American Novel, and then later on I set out the silverware and enjoyed my dinner in silence.

Novels are written word by word. If you can write a word, and then another word, you can write a novel—assuming your novel will be two words long. Here’s a two-word romance novel: I do....

My pen beats faster as I write with my heart

a purveyor of insipid wet-dreams.

I try my best to create a good quote while sitting alone. But I can never create it. Only on talking to you I get lots of lines

On plenty of days the writer can write three or four pages, and on plenty of other days he concludes he must throw them away.

I only want to write. And there’s no college for that except life.