Whatever you may have heard, self-publishing is not a short cut to anything. Except maybe insanity. Self-publishing, like every other kind of publishing, is hard work. You don’t wake up one morning good at it....

I’m a struggling writer, I’m struggling to convince people I’m a writer.

I am completely unflustered by whichever medium people choose to read my words. I’m just delighted they’re reading them at all!

What a lonely and silly thing it is to be an Armenian writer in America.

When I’m out and about, I’ll text or email myself from my phone. A smart phone is a great tool for a writer.

I’ve come to realize that love is tragic, somewhere down the line it’s inevitable. Fight for it.

Muses are fickle, and many a writer, peering into the voice, has escaped paralysis by ascribing the creative responsibility to a talisman: a lucky charm, a brand of paper, but most often a writing instrument....

The writing has a meaning only if it is penned down with the heart’s deep feeling.

Writers are creatures of habit, as are humans, but writers aren’t necessarily human, are they?

I’m still very blunt: If you want to be a writer, get a day job. The fact that I have actually been able to make a living at it is astonishing.

Social Media begins with a story – your story.

Because there are hundreds of different ways to say one thing, I, being a writer, songwriter, and poet, speak childishly and incoherently. In speech there is so much to decide in so little time.

The writer Richard Curtis is a genius.

Menjadi penulis itu tak cukup sekadar menjelma kutubuku, tetapi jadilah predator buku!

There are two motives for writing a book: one, that you may save what you know, the other, that you may share what you know with the public.

As a fiction writer, let me make it up, and let me make it up to you. I’ll pen our love story, if you’ll be my co-author.

A writer always writes.

Writing is simply another means for truth to escape, besides crawling out the hole it’s eaten in the author’s belly.

To be a Russian writer at the end of the nineteenth century must have meant bearing an inescapably bitter fate. The more they tried to escape from Russia, the more deeply Russia swallowed them.

Do you think you’re not ‘ready’ to start that big story idea/project you’ve been thinking about forever?Jump in. Write anyway. The only way to make the impossible a reality is to take a leap of...

It is a misfortune to be in the presence of a writer, even a failed writer, to be seen by him, be his passing study and remain in his corrupt memory. It is like the...

I think there are some writers – like, if you read Kerouac, I think you probably need to take a little break before you sit down to the typewriter because he’s the type of writer...

I tend to like to read history – recent history, because I find that much more intriguing than just a writer’s imagination.

I’ve long considered becoming a writer to be the death of nightmares. For me at least, since I started writing I hadn’t had any. Something really terrible or awful happens in a dream and you...

Never give up. Never. Ever. Ever.

I wrote. I wrote all the things I couldn’t say to him. I wrote about how much I believed in us. I wrote about how much I trusted God. I wrote that I was praying...

A writer can live by his writing. If not so luxuriously as by other trades, then less luxuriously. The nature of the work he does all day will more affect his happiness than the quality...

If I lived a million lives, I would’ve felt a million feelings and I still would’ve fallen a million times for you.

Broken hearts, you can run, you can hide and perhaps the earth is big enough to believe you’re safe. So maybe for a moment you have escaped but hear me, hear me well. Love will...

Three carefully stringed words are worth more than a book of gibberish. It’s not the word count but the impact of those words that counts.

Sometimes you have to go a little crazy before you can find sanity. I think I’m close.

Part of my soul goes into each quote I write. A book of my quotes can be yours for just $19.99.

To write a poem you must have a streak of arrogance– not in real life I hope. In real life try to be nice. It will save you a hell of a lot of trouble...

An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.

I’ve been obsessed with stories since I was a kid so it’s no surprise that I ended up writing for a living.

The pale organisms of literary heroes feeding under the author’s supervision swell gradually with the reader’s lifeblood; so that the genius of a writer consists in giving them the faculty to adapt themselves to that...

Writing fulfils an insatiable drive. Finishing the story satisfies my thirst. But I must keep drinking until the story quenches a buyer.

Some days you live in pajamas and your hair has that kind-of Albert Einstein look.

Don’t ask a writer what he’s working on. It’s like asking someone with cancer on the progress of his disease.

I am driven not for myself, but for others.

If you want to be a professional writer then you need to write consistently. Inspiration strikes about once every blue moon which, for me, is once every two and a half to three months, which...

I never said you were supposed to be a jailer, i only said a normal person would have questioned why someone would create a decoy nun and then crawl out the window.

Every job from the heart is, ultimately, of equal value. The nurse injects the syringe; the writer slides the pen; the farmer plows the dirt; the comedian draws the laughter. Monetary income is the perfect...

Miss, I’d gladly pay you to remove your clothes.

As a writer, my only responsibility is to tell a compelling story.

To write what you think is to think what you write. Leave those of hollow to their dust. They are but sorry things.

Why do I write? Out of fear. Out of fear that the memory of the people I write about might go lost. Out of fear that the memory of myself might get lost. Or even...

Coin a new word and hear it jingle in your pocket with all your other change. My love for you is sofacouchsitsitting, so you’d better buckle up.

Be yourself. The world worships the original.

The writer in her went silent and hid when her revealing words were wide-spread read.