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.

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...

Don’t put down too many roots in terms of a domicile. I have lived in four countries and I think my life as a writer and our family’s life have been enriched by this. I...

Take life one chapter at a time.

Writing is the one thing I know I will never grow tired of in life; the one thing I could do until the day I die and still feel like I haven’t done enough.

The writer knows his own worth, and to be overvalued can confuse and destroy him as an artist.

There are… otherwise quite decent people who are so dull of nature that they believe that they must attribute the swift flight of fancy to some illness of the psyche, and thus it happens that...

This world can be quite wonderful once you let yourself be a part of it. It’s on your side, you know?

And yet Curt’s a real writer too. His machinery is stuck, that’s all.

Mr. Olsen in the fifth grade made me want to be a writer. He said, ‘Chuck, you do this really well. And this is much better than setting fires, so keep it up.’ That made...

There is nothing like the moment you connect with a reader! Nothing like the response that you get when what you have written touches someone in some way. It’s a moment in which your work...

I want to be an honest man and a good writer.

My asshole smells like a paper mill. Three cheers for being a writer.

I only sound intelligent when there’s a good script writer around.

Then there was Clark Ashton Smith, who wrote for Weird Tales and who had a wild imagination. He wasn’t a very talented writer, but his imagination was wonderful.

can you make words from the unwordable, chisel blocks of raw silence into shapes and touch our souls?

You know that you are a writer if you are imaginative. You know that you are a writer if you are curious. You know that you are a writer if you are interested in the...

If you don’t have a unique voice, then you’re not really a writer.

Some mediocre ladies in influential positions are usually embarrassed by an unusual book and so prefer the old familiar stuff which doesn’t embarrass them and also doesn’t give the child one slight inkling of beauty...

And on the days I couldn’t breathe, I learned to paint air.

I like it when I can hear directly from the writer: what they’re seeing, what they’re envisioning, and what their intention is.

The director in TV and the writer and the creator are working very much hand in hand.

I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I’ve never been able to sell. I’m known as a fantasy writer and neither my agent nor my editors want to risk my brand...

A bad handwriting is as annoying to a reader … as an irritating voice is to a listener.

technology murdered childhood.

I arrived, I saw humans and I saw through their faces. Nothing ever changes but the light in their eyes. For I too have buried my demons today, without knowing what might remain beneath the...

People always want to identify a writer with their protagonist.

By seeing how small the world is, I realize how capable I am. I can conquer anything. Anywhere. Anyone.

If you don’t write, then read.

After I did ‘Mr. Show,’ I was basically just a writer for a while. I was really young, and I kinda was like, ,wow, I’m 27 and I was already on this iconic show, and...

If I can make a living as a writer, I can do anything.

On Twitter, people who had read my book followed me and I could see what else they were reading, why they’d liked what I’d written and by the by, more about them than I’d ever...

My mission as a writer is to give my readers hope to carry with them, and to promote a belief that they can do anything they set their minds to.

The highest privilege of being a writer is being able to say, ‘open your mind to me and I’ll take you to another world.

Criticism can never instruct or benefit you. Its chief effect is that of a telegram with dubious news. Praise leaves no glow behind, for it is a writer’s habit to remember nothing good of himself....

The only way to get the ending you want is to write your own story.

Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of art.”(Last words, according to Dickens’s obituary in The Times.)

Sometimes, when it’s going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a fetish for stationery. The true writer, the born writer, will scribble words...

Making love to me is amazing. Wait, I meant: making love, to me, is amazing. The absence of two little commas nearly transformed me into a sex god.

I want my life to be the greatest story. My very existence will be the greatest poem.Watch me burn.Love always, Charlotte

A lady sent me an email recently advising me to change my environment. I guess she read through the lines of my writing and I had adequately painted a portrait of my experiences for her...

A writer travels through the heart again and again to express the beauty of its contents.

I am not a good enough writer to have an agenda or come up with a message and try to put it into a song. It’s more like you write what comes to you… You...

This is what I believe to be the progress of a writer. You write 10 things, of which one of them will be great. You then write 11 things, of which two of them will...

When you grow up to be an author and write books, you’ll think you’re making the books up, but they’ll all really be true, somewhere.

The Lone Star of Africa Land of the free, on your beach and sacred forests loves flourished. You, Liberia, you my love to echo, the scream of freedom, holding tight and will never let go....

Writing ink is the magic that allows nothing to become something. It catches the fleeting idea and seeks out the glances of those who wish to see. Even a random ink splat will mean something...

So I’m not a Southern writer in the commonly held sense of the term, like Faulkner or Eudora Welty, who took the South for their entire literary environment and subject matter.