Gonna pretend to be a deaf mute who knows no sign one day, meet a woman, and we’ll write for the rest of our lives.

I want to write a book about shoes that’s full of footnotes.

The code of the coward is to run away. I know, because I wrote the manual.

I write for ghosts; the ghosts I can’t see but I know stick around. Some I know are good. Others I know are bad. The first bring me nostalgic comfort while the latter instill unease.

If you’re frightened of the countless number of books in the library, you’ll never write anything, until you close your eyes and hold the pen.

You do not learn how to write novels in a writing program. You learn how by leading an interesting life. Open yourself up to all experience. Let life pour through you the way light pours...

Always follow your dreams. Never give up. If you have a thought in your mind write it down. If you have a desire in your heart to write, then write. Tell your story. Make a...

Write what you love. Fill your pages with the beating of your own heart, the breath from your own lungs. Live through your characters. Let your characters live through you. Then you will love what...

Ignorance must be prosecuted when arrested. The only way for its arrest is by information and the only way for prosecution is through reading and learning of new things.

I am in awe of flowers. Not because of their colors, but because even though they have dirt in their roots, they still grow. They still bloom.

I will try to write books until I drop dead.

Book:Sharing of life and experiences with other people.This is lifetime notes for all generations.

You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you write with someone looking over you shoulder, you’ll never write.

Twitter is a serious writing distraction. As are grapefruits. The two have nothing else in common.

A lot of people who read my novel ‘Smog City’ ask me why I never killed off either of the two main characters. To be honest, it’s because I’ve given them life. Not literally of...

When you get some free time, write. When you get some lazy time, plan. When you get down time, world build. When your time comes, shine!

I try to write a certain amount each day, five days a week. A rule sometimes broken is better than no rule.

Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is criticizing. Criticism can never be a science: it is, in the first place,...

I have an impulse to write all over the orange walls- I need an alphabet of endings ripped out of books, of hands pulled off of clocks, of cold stones, of shoes filled with nothing...

To write better you must develop your taste for truth. You have to pay more attention to what you really think, feel, see and want.

A boy with a story must write.

Stop writing what you know and start writing what you want to know.

By the end, you should be inside your character, actually operating from within somebody else, and knowing him pretty well, as that person knows himself or herself. You’re sort of a predator, an invader of...

Tonight, I decided to take a stroll down to my local liquor store. Maybe I’ll find a refreshment to wash down this full moon. I hate showing up & the clerk fucking knows my name,...

It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.

Write about the desire you dare to dream.

My name is Yogurt Vonnegut, and I write with a spoon.

What a writer has to do is write what hasn’t been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.

Writing is expressing yourself … You don’t write just to amaze you write to entertain, not others but yourself

Find your quiet center of life and write from that to the world.

I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.

Writers write while dreamers procastinate.

Writers fish for the right words like fishermen fish for, um, whatever those aquatic creatures with fins and gills are called.

What is the finding of love, but a voice answering a voice?

Aesthetic enthusiasm. Perception of beauty in the external world, or, on the other hand, in words and their right arrangement. Pleasure in the impact of one sound on another, in the firmness of good prose...

Writing help us to express our thoughts, to share experiences, to think, to love, to inspire, to motivate, to challenge, to liberate, to learn, to hope, to smile and to wonder.

Write what you know. Write what you can’t forget. Write to give yourself courage and others hope.

What you listen in heart, are echoes of the past.What you write today, will be echoed in the future.

Never write when you are not in the mood; when you are not feeling it. If the words do not flow freely, and come to you almost magically, then put it down and do not...

Don’t put down too many roots in terms of a domicile. I have lived in four countries and I think my life as a writer and our family’s life have been enriched by this. I...

When I write, I make discoveries about my feelings.

If writers stopped writing about what happened to them, then there would be a lot of empty pages.

How are you going to spend your day today? The key word being spend. Our time is one of the most precious gifts in our lives. Once today is over, that’s it. Think about how...

God has written His divine guidelines for your life right in the Bible.

You cannot prove your worth by bylines and busyness.

Who am I? I’m just a writer. I write things down. I walk through your dreams and invent the future. Sure, I sink the boat of love, but that comes later. And yes, I swallow...

So why do I write, torturing myself to put it down? Because in spite of myself I’ve learned some things. Without the possibility of action, all knowledge comes to one labeled “file and forget,” and...

You can never know enough about your characters

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...