She was a beautiful dreamer. The kind of girl, who kept her head in the clouds, loved above the stars and left regret beneath the earth she walked on.

Maybe I hope too much. Maybe I dream too much or maybe I love too much to just give up on you.

My words, my writing, my actions—these have never been for myself alone, either directly or indirectly. There is no such thing as an artist who creates art only for himself. That is masturbation.

Who is better off? The one who writes to revel in the voluptuousness of the life that surrounds them? Or the one who writes to escape the tediousness of that which awaits them outside? Whose...

Surely it is an odd way to spend your life – sitting alone in a room with a pen in your hand, hour after hour, day after day, year after year, struggling to put words...

I had achieved the most important things in my life when I married Joan and had the sons. Given the choice between Joan and the boys, and being a writer, I world give up being...

If you can write; then you are a writer – Rayvon L Browne

If we don’t value the people who inspire us (and money is one mark of that) then what kind of culture are we building?

Ben hik yeciyim diye sizlerden ayrı şeyler düşünecek değilim. Sizin düşündüklerinizden başka bir şey de düşünemem. O halde bu adamın hik yesi ne olabilir? Sakın benden büyük vakalar beklemeyin, n’olur?

Fiction demands structures and recognizable shapes. Big surprises only draw attention to the writer’s hand.

Being a writer brings out a sassy woman inside me, and I love her so.

A masterpiece does not unfurl its wings immediately. It takes time. It will fly when it is ready.

What should a good children’s book be like? If you ask me, I can tell you after thinking long and hard: It must be good.

I like to discover something new each day, to interpret the world in a way others might not, like a child might approach new experiences.

You become a writer because you need to become a writer – nothing else.

I’m the wave pushed by the wind, always receding before reaching the shore.

An editor sleeping with his writer was not as bad as a psychoanalyst sleeping with his patient, or even a professor sleeping with an undergraduate, let alone a president with an intern.

Being lonely is not a bad thing for a writer.

A good writer is a magician; she unfolds the dark secrets of mind.

I have yet to find that one perfect phrase that epitomizes all the mysteries of the universe. Luckily, I doubt to ever pen it in this lifetime, for then the seeking ends; miserable is the...

Bestseller doesn’t necessarily mean good writer. I think it takes 10,000 book sales to make the bestseller’s list, and at about 9 dollars a pop for my book, if I had an extra $90,000 dollars...

Life’s too short, drive it like ya stole it!

A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.

12.Se escrevo o que sinto é porque assim diminuo a febre de sentir. O que confesso não tem import ncia, pois nada tem import nciaPor: Bernado SoaresIn: Livro do Desassossego

If you only had a year left to live, what book would you write?Now, write that book.

No writer should minimize the factor that affects everyone, but is beyond control: luck.

Well, Betsy,” he said, “your mother tells me that you are going to use Uncle Keith’s trunk for a desk. That’s fine. You need a desk. I’ve often noticed how much you like to write....

I’d wanted to be a writer and when I came back to New York worked as a musician too, but I found my writing starting to get more and more referential to cinema.

I haven’t had writer’s block. I think it’s because my process involves writing very badly.

I would be more frightened as a writer if people thought my movies were like science fiction.

A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.

They fuck you up, your mum and dad? No, that wasn’t it at all. Well, they did do that, perhaps, but they also allowed you to become the person, and the writer, that you had...

The chaos in me is the chaos in you. Like the love in you is the love in me. So maybe we’re both a little crazy. Enough to believe we’re found where dreams are born...

We’re only instruments of love, flowing through heaps of pain hoping one day we’d hatch a passion of our own.

The artist must be like that Marine. He has to know how to be miserable. He has to love being miserable.

My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue [is] the pen of a ready writer.

The earth makes a sound as of sighs and the last drops fall from the emptied cloudless sky. A small boy, stretching out his hands and looking up at the blue sky, asked his mother...

I burned out my drawing hand by using it too much. The common word for it is writer’s cramp. The fancy words for it are focal dystonia. The symptom in my case was a pinky...

For when I trace back the years I have liv’d, gathering them up in my Memory, I see what a chequer’d Work Of Nature my life has been. If I were now to inscribe my...

I’m a professional writer and I consider it part of my job to publicise my work and these days part of that job is done online.

I couldn’t believe a man had written this! Ryker had a way with words and the way with words and the way my emotions got twisted in them was a gift only a true writer...

Come writers and criticsWho prophesize with your penAnd keep your eyes wideThe chance won’t come againAnd don’t speak too soonFor the wheel’s still in spinAnd there’s no tellin’ whoThat it’s namin’For the loser nowWill be...

Not everything can stand the test of time, but a story can.

My brother is a comic-book writer, and I was always in love with comics.

I am a writer and always was; being a writer is an integral part of my identity. Being published, being well regarded, is a component of that identity.

I hope that I capture something in my work that is about the elusive, the magical and powerful and the transformative. The writing in itself is transformative for me.

A writer is like a gossiper who reveal secrets in a professional way.

I think in life there is only one absolute truth. Death… It’s the only definitive horizon, sometime it leaps, runs across mountains and vanishes beyond oceans but the closer you get, the more you see...

There’s one good kind of writer – a dead one.

Inspiration doesn’t always come in chronological order.