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