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.

Write as if life has no meanings without writing.

I want to type one of my books into a free online translation website, and convert it from English to German and then publish the results as an exercise in the absurd.

Even the most beautifully written, perfectly edited and well-designed books will fail if people aren’t made aware of them!” ––Linda Radke, President of Five Star Publications, on the importance of public relations and marketing.

Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.

Discover everything about your characters that you can before you write your story. If you get stuck at any point, they will write your dialog for you.

And at 3am you sit near the window and wonder if there is magic… because all you need are some fairies to take your pain away and help you sleep… you take a book to...

I really do feel like I was born to write and tell stories.

Women must write through their bodies, they must invent the impregnable language that will wreck partitions, classes, and rhetorics, regulations and codes, they must submerge, cut through, get beyond the ultimate reverse-discourse, including the one...

The sky never falls with the rain. It is never weighed down by all that it carries. It takes all of its anchorsand turns them into stars. Learn from this.

They say that to escape reality is when you sleep, but when you sleep your sub conscious is in control of your dreams. For me to escape reality is when I read and write. When...

Não chega lembrar nem querer: é preciso inventar o que a nossa alma nos pede, que não existe feito neste mundo – precisamente para que as almas trabalhem nisso muito tempo. E não se ocupem...

The pages of a book are given life only as they are opened

I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books,...

You write a hit play the same way you write a flop

In the light, we read the inventions of others; in the darkness we invent our own stories.

I know it’s difficult in the beginning. But, listen. If you have the impulse to write, do yourself a favor, do the world a favor, and write.