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...

A scene should be selected by the writer for haunted-ness-of-mind interest. If you’re not haunted by something, as by a dream, a vision, or a memory, which are involuntary, you’re not interested or even involved.

I don’t categorize myself as an 85-year-old woman who has written an erotic novel. I categorize myself as a writer who’s written an erotic novel.

The pen that was once a gift has come to represent all that I hope to achieve.

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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...

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.

What a writer has to do is write what hasn’t been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.

I write books, bitch!

Don’t Rush Up The Stairs, you Just Might Fall. Take it One Step At A Time!

Only a person with the true heart of a dictionary-writer would be lying in bed, three days after being stabbed in the gut, worrying about his P’s.

Writer is always alone. But every author is a creator, and gods are lonely.

Finding a writer who can write decent kids’ dialog and finding kids that can act realistically and not ‘cute’ is an effort.

If I’d learned nothing else, it was this: If you want to be a great writer, be a man. If you can’t be a man, write like one.

…if you’ve got writer’s block, you aren’t empty – maybe it’s just like Twitter – overwhelmed, and loading seems to be taking a while…

Each time I write, I reaffirm my soul.