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.

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...

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...

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

One of the things I learnt over the years is that there is a craft to writing, like there is a craft to acting. I hadn’t done my apprenticeship as a writer. I did try...

I am an acquired taste. Do with that what you will.

Words both written and read are my passion.

Naturally, this country can’t stand truth.

She is a writer, what the fuck do you expect from her other than passion, truth and goddam soul?

…perhaps in actions I’m less of a man – but, oh the words – such lovely words…

Being a writer is not the point. Writing is.

But dear, don’t be afraid of love it’s only magic.

The fear of loving a dog, is knowing one day they’ll be gone and you could never find eyes that express all that you feel.

Whenever I work with different artists, I expand as a song writer, as a producer, and I always want to try and find the bridge between my world and their world.

There are very few professions in which people just sit down and think hard for five or six hours a day all by themselves. Of course it’s why you want to become a writer —...

I read not for entertainment but to feel what the writer has felt while writing even though if it was fiction.

One of the best things that happened for me as a playwright is becoming a comic-book writer.

You have to have empathy, knowledge and compassion for your characters if you’re a writer.

Archive material is vital to the writer of historical fiction.

La mia novella di Natale, Un Cuore nella Bufera, inizia così…Mi sveglio di soprassalto, gli occhi spalancati nel buio, la notte rischiarata dal bagliore della neve che fuori continua a cadere. Trattengo il respiro, quasi...

To be read. To be heard. To be seen. I want to be read, I want to be heard. I don’t need to be seen. To write requires an ego, a belief that what you...

My writing flows out of my doctorhood. They are not separate things. They are one. I think the foremost connection between being a doctor and being a writer is the great privilege of having an...

No man can stay forever young unless he is a writer.

The word ‘NO’ is the best motivation there is for the storyteller in you.

If words come alive on the page, the writer succeeds in connecting to the reader.

Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.

He pressed bravely ahead with his story, the outlines and preliminary versions of which by now filled two thick notebooks, reorganizing, redrafting, and obsessively re-polishing lines and paragraphs with a jeweler’s precision.But it was not...

Unfortunately for my family, they have a writer in the family.

I should charge my bank money every time I endorse the back of a check. What is the going rate these days for the autograph of an aspiring writer?

The flashing black line on an empty Word document reminds me that my life is counting down second by second, and that if I don’t write I’ll have wasted my time here on earth.

The viewpoint character in each story is usually someone trapped in a living nightmare, but this doesn’t guarantee that we and the protagonist are at one. In fact Woolrich often makes us pull away from...

Instead of reciting her an original love poem using words, I think I’ll use my tongue to more creatively explore the deepest parts of her.

Me and my readers, we’re on the same page. That page is one.

The hoary joke in the literary world, based on ‘Dreams From My Father,’ was that if things had worked out differently for Barack Obama, he could have made it as a writer.

You are a writer. You just need to write.

Stop beating yourself up over all the days you didn’t work on your story. Focus on what you can do today.Sit down, and write.

I suffer depression only in the sense that I am a writer. We don’t have proper jobs to go to. We are on our own all day. Show me a writer who doesn’t get depressed:...

You Can’t Replace A Star with A Lightbulb

I realize that I am typically vulnerable only when and where and how much it suits me. I can choose my writer words and even go back and edit.

You cannot teach creativity—how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be.” Mario Vargas Llosa

The writer’s secret is not inspiration – for it is never clear where it comes from – it is his stubbornness, his patience.

He who has experienced the mystery of the nature is full of life, full of love, full of joy. Radiance emanates from the whole existence itself, it does not know the meaning of holding back....

…each person is required to ask, ‘what is my authority?’ – on what do you base your decisions? if it’s yourself, then you are without excuse…

Every word I write is a seed that I may nurture into a small, beautiful poem or a tall, soaring tree.

To love is to soar in the wild unexpectedly.

The truth is I didn’t need therapy; I just needed to feel loved and know that someone out there craved my attention.

Every writer must acknowledge and be able to handle the unalterable fact that he has, in effect, given himself a life sentence in solitary confinement.

Negative experiences repeat as long as they remain useful to you.

I’m very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I’ve never really considered myself a writer.