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.

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...

If I knew what I was thinking […] I would never have become a writer.

A critique is a necessary tool to sharpen your craft.

The writer dreams awake. The killer nightmares awake. (L’écrivain rêve éveillé. – Le tueur cauchemarde éveillé)

I just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very much.

I have found that a writer is formed not so much by their experiences but by the way in which they view and capture those experiences. Like vivid, rainbow metallic skin cells on the wings...

Freedom can choke you if you don’t know how to handle it.

At all times, think like a writer, and keep those antennae twitching – that way, you pick up new ideas.

It’s not: I jumped in, and it was cold. No. It was cold, and I jumped in. Always arrange a sentence so you appear to be fearless, when in fact you are far less than...

Write the words “The FIve Senses” on an index card and tack it to a bulletin board above your desk. You should have a bulletin board above your desk, if at all possible. Some place...

Being goal-oriented instead of self-oriented is crucial. I know so many people who want to be writers. But let me tell you, they really don’t want to be writers. They want to have been writers....

Writers are not just writers, they are creators of worlds, sculptors of the mind, they are architects of language.

I wanted to be a literary writer, so I wrote story after story and sent them to ‘The New Yorker.’

I’m pretty sure I’m the only author who intends to take the longest possible route to a destination that will always be over the next hill.

Let you light shine from the inside out.

The nastiest kind of writer is a ghostwriter, who bears people’s children in their body for money.

You Can’t Change Your Life… Until You Change Your Heart, and You Can’t Change Your Heart… Until You Change Your Mind!

I think the difference between a lie and a story is that a story utilizes the trappings and appearance of truth for the interest of the listener as well as of the teller. A story...

Being a writer is a gift, being an author is amazing, becoming a best seller is everyone’s dream

I strongly believe that the art of the novel works best when the writer identifies with whoever he or she is writing about. Novels in the end are based on the human capacity, compassion, 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.

…authority is the unmistakeable tone in the voice of a true writer…

Writing heals my heart like no pill ever could.

We swallowed the chaos because we knew we didn’t want to be ordinary.

She needed the chaos within her in order to discover the extraordinary no man could ever reach.

Be true to the writer within you; tell the story you’re dying to tell in exactly the way you wish to tell it, and don’t trust anyone who tries to sway you otherwise.

Advice from a Romance Writer: Guys, make your woman feel pretty even on an ‘off’ day. Trust me, good things will come of it.

Writing, then, was a substitute for myself: if you don’t love me, love my writing & love me for my writing. It is also much more: a way of ordering and reordering the chaos of...

He can see what move I’m planning to make in chess and counters before I can do it. He always knows who the killer is in a detective story. I think he could make a...

I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.

Edinburgh is a comfortable puddle for a novelist.

I’ve carved out a career for myself really as a writer.

Embrace your journey and those who come across your path. Be gracious in your endeavors. Focus on your craft. Those who support your dreams now and feel your sincere humility and gratitude will be there...

When people starts to enjoy a writer’s pen, he becomes a legend even if his stories are neither long nor publicly surrounded by expectations.

When I got recognized as a writer, when I got the Emmy, I was more excited than the Emmys I had gotten as an actor.

It is possible to be a great novelist – that is, to render a veracious account of your times – and a bad writer – that is, an incompetent practitioner of applied linguistics.

You sure about this writer thing son?

Nothing makes you feel smaller than New York City…

My writing, it’s my way of making sense of everything. My way to feel whole. May I never be complete and may I never feel content – please, let me always have the need, always...

A writer should never wait for inspiration but be the inspiration.

You see, unlike most writers today, I do not use a computer. I write the old-fashioned way: on the walls of caves.

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...

I’m a miner, and I’m always dirty, because I’m constantly digging. Am I shoveling for gold? Hardly. I’m unearthing this hearty land searching for the next great American novel. If I dig deep enough, I’m...