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.

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.

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...

In my early 30s, I started to realise I was avoiding something on a personal level, but also as a writer. I was in denial about who I was, and was trying to be someone...

A blank piece of paper and a pen or a pencil is always all ears.

I have a writer’s memory which makes everything worse than maybe it actually was.

On every page, confidence fights with self-doubt. Every sentence is an act of faith. Why would anybody want to do it?

Early in her career, Muse engaged her skills for technical purposes, such as document translation and schematic visualizations for government entities. She continued to write and paint poetically, in secret, using her pen name, Muse....

… and it was quite a sad thing,the way I watched you sleep like nothing could go wrong and I did not want to harm it, I did not want to blur it, but how...

During the act of making something, I experience a kind of blissful absence of the self and a loss of time. When I am done, I return to both feeling as restored as if I...

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

There is only one rule for writing and that is go ahead and start writing.

I kind of want to be seen as an American writer, not just a New York writer.