The training of a journalist, of working with words for thousands of hours, is extraordinarily useful for a fiction writer.

Read everything! I believe that reading made me a writer.

The urge to create a fictional narrative is a mysterious one, and when an idea comes, the writer’s sense of what a story wants to be is only vaguely visible through the penumbra of inspiration.

The idea that you’re not a writer until you’re published is a lie.

I’m either going to be a writer or a bum.

My lips are fierce with passion. My heart spins fiery beats. A rhythm lives within my fingers and dances in my feet.

You can write nothing of value unless you give yourself wholly to the the theme — and when you so give yourself — you lose appetite ans sleep — it cannot be helped —

I don’t think I would be a writer if I had stayed in Chile. I would be trapped in the chores, in the family, in the person that people expected me to be.

If I were stranded on a desert island, and could have only one person and three things with me, I’d want Nietzsche, a pen, paper, and a stick-on mustache.

Setelah menjadi seorang penulis, saya lebih giat lagi belajar menulis.

Love is wind for the soul

Sometimes I’ll read a book and feel it was written just for me. Then I’ll flip the book over to look at the cover to see who wrote it, only to discover that it feels...

You can be a writer who doesn’t read everyday. But you’re not fooling anyone. It shows, rather embarrassingly, in your work.

When one writer tries to silence another, he silences every writer-and in the end he also silences himself.

I wrote you a love letter. I used invisible ink to show I was being transparent with my feelings. And also to hide my feelings.

You’re writing someone’s ‘future’ favorite book.

So I really began as a failed poet – although when I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry.

A city full of eight million people. It was all rather lonely sometimes.

I’ve been writing stories since I was 12. ‘Writer’s Digest’ was one of my writing teachers, actually.

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.

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.