A good writer is impatient on behalf of the reader. They ruthlessly eliminate unnecessary information and needless words. They are respectful of the reader’s time by only including what matters.

Suddenly I remembered that laugh, it told a different story, our story.

In The End The Words Are The All And The Nothing.

My normal friends loved having a token author. Just like every WoW raiding party needs at least one healer, every gaggle needs at least one artist. They enjoyed introducing me to people at bars. “This...

Look back, but never look down.

To write is to reveal oneself.When I write something, fiction or non-fiction, I do not expect you to accept what I write, nor to agree with what I propose.I expect you to spend at least...

Don’t say you’re a writer if you’re not writing. Even if you’re writing, don’t call yourself a writer. Say instead, ‘I write.’ It’s the verb that’s important, not the noun.

Literature always anticipates life. It doesn’t copy it but moulds it to it’s purpose.

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...

I will not stop singingthe Muses who set me dancing.

I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I just try to warn people who hope to get published that publication is not all it is cracked up to...

A writer is the one who loves to write . . . on and about anything . . . And this clears that I am a writer!!

A writer, like a sheriff, is the embodiment of a group of people and without their support both are in a tight spot.

I hate being a writer. i tend to stick my emotions in things that cannot reciprocate. I’ve become a whore for my craft.

… and I realise the only way to tell the others is through the way my voice can take these broken wordsand turn it into music. Turn it into poetry.And I sing to make myself...

When you’re a mid-list writer, it pays to write fast.

A writer’s duty is to draw a picture that expresses more inner beauty, deeper anxiety, and more complex tragedy than a real character ever can.

I became a writer when I learnt how to read — how to listen; how to see, smell, touch, and feel. But not everyone who knows these things, not everyone who writes, or publishes, is...

So you went from one reader to two readers?” you’d be absolutely correct. And after I had congratulated you on your keen guess, I’d thank you for being 50% of my reading base.

I wasn’t that good you know. What I was was a guy who could write a little, publishing in magazines surrounded by people who couldn’t write at all. So I looked pretty good. But I...

There was a day when writers actually read,” he grumbles. “They could quote Keats and Socrates. Now anyone with a keyboard and a fifth-grade education can call themselves a writer.

Never interrupt an author when he or she is ‘in the zone’, else you’ll understand the real meaning of ‘writer’s nib’.

Let your story grow. Let it surprise you, and it will certainly surprise your readers.

I wish I was the kind of writer who would go to a war zone and write about something that’s meaningful and important to people, but that’s not my area of coverage.

No president has come near to rivaling Lincoln as a writer.

Like Elmore Leonard and Donald Westlake and Robert B. Parker and oh so many others, I want to die with my boots on, facedown on my keyboard if possible, in the middle of a sentence.

Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it’s right, it’s easy. It’s the other way round, too. If it’s slovenly written, then it’s hard to read. It doesn’t give the reader what the careful...

I never wanted to be saved, just loved in ways that would make the Gods jealous.

Being known as a writer did change the relationships I had with directors. The rap on actors is that they always want to inflate their parts. But when directors know you write screenplays and have...

There is no vacation for a writer! Every moment of his life is work!

You know what? It makes you understand why a dog eats its own vomit.

Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal.

I am a meat-loving Southern girl. Add in being a writer, and that means I drink more than I should, too.

And each book has to receive your best effort every single time. No slacking.

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

A professional man of letters, especially if he is much at war with unscrupulous enenemies, is naturally jealous of his privacy… so it was, I think, with Dryden.

I’ve never yet run out of ideas what to write about… only out of time to write it in.

I’m an accidental writer.

I realised early on that being an author is a hugely misunderstood job.

Sometimes writing everyday is like pulling teeth, painful, but necessary.

Lest it sound as if I resent my day job, I have to say that my day job is the reason I write, and it has been the best thing for me as a writer.

The most difficult thing about writing; is writing the first line.

I’m going to be a person who writes stories.I never told mom and dad how much I loved them.I wanna be someone who can tell a lot of people how much I love them.

I write because I have to; because I wouldn’t know what to do with my hands if I didn’t.

I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn’t a reader yet has just not found the right book.

It is the writer who might catch the imagination of young people, and plant a seed that will flower and come to fruition.

The writer’s curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.

I don’t sit on material like a sofa. I also don’t sit on material like a sofa. I’m a stand on the couch kind of writer.

A writer creates wings of words and lets them fly in the sky of readers’ minds.

I haven’t written in a week. It’s like holding your breath under water. You feel an awful constriction and then the instinct to propel yourself.