Never interrupt an author when he or she is ‘in the zone’, else you’ll understand the real meaning of ‘writer’s nib’.

Let your story grow. Let it surprise you, and it will certainly surprise your readers.

I wish I was the kind of writer who would go to a war zone and write about something that’s meaningful and important to people, but that’s not my area of coverage.

No president has come near to rivaling Lincoln as a writer.

Like Elmore Leonard and Donald Westlake and Robert B. Parker and oh so many others, I want to die with my boots on, facedown on my keyboard if possible, in the middle of a sentence.

The spirit of an artist’s gifts can wake our own.

For as long as I write, I will never be lost.

…you fantasize about me reading my poems to you – it doesn’t work that way – I write down everything later – living is not an after-thought…

I’m an alien in my own world, a writer without words, a musician without a piano, a magician without a wand. I am fooled by infinite words that rush in my blood, yet imprisoned by...

Suddenly, everything was beautiful. The way she viewed the world was nothing more but a reflection of herself.

Excuse me, I feel interrupted and I think I’ve overdose from the idea of loving you.

When you believe you’ve become the best writer you can be… you still aren’t.

All you have to do is put one word after another, and remember how great it feels to be a writer.

Who thought up the dumb idea to arrange the memoir section in the bookstore by subject?

This was something that was obsessing me and creating a writer’s block. To get involved and get stuck in, get the proper information about what’s going on has really helped.

Now that you’re an adult, you might still feel a pang of guilt when you decline a dinner invitation in favor of a good book. Or maybe you like to eat alone in restaurants and...

People make interesting assumptions about the profession. The writer is a mysterious figure, wandering lonely as a cloud, fired by inspiration, or perhaps a cocktail or two.

I was a ‘learn by doing’ writer – I never took any formal writing classes. So it took a long time to figure things out and find my voice.

So, through all that early professional career I would occasionally do a musical, a pantomime or a play with songs. The next stop would be a Shakespeare, or an Ibsen, or a play by a...

Lest it sound as if I resent my day job, I have to say that my day job is the reason I write, and it has been the best thing for me as a writer.

The most difficult thing about writing; is writing the first line.

I’m going to be a person who writes stories.I never told mom and dad how much I loved them.I wanna be someone who can tell a lot of people how much I love them.

I write because I have to; because I wouldn’t know what to do with my hands if I didn’t.

I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn’t a reader yet has just not found the right book.

It is the writer who might catch the imagination of young people, and plant a seed that will flower and come to fruition.

The writer’s curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.

I don’t sit on material like a sofa. I also don’t sit on material like a sofa. I’m a stand on the couch kind of writer.

A writer creates wings of words and lets them fly in the sky of readers’ minds.

I haven’t written in a week. It’s like holding your breath under water. You feel an awful constriction and then the instinct to propel yourself.

I want to write an unreliable narrator. In fact, he’ll be so unreliable that I’m not even sure he’ll show up to narrate.

I always claim that the writer has done 90 percent of the director’s work.

Knocking on a door is so violent. Instead, try talking to the door to get it to open up to you. I should write a self-help book for door-to-door salesmen.

All a writer wants is to be read, and people are so flattering and lovely. I mean, there are witches out there as well. But most are so kind.

All great stories began as shitty first drafts.There are no exceptions to this.

You can’t possibly know that you’re going to be a writer!” Miss Frost said. “It’s not a career choice.

What a writer brought to a book didn’t matter as much as what the reader contributed.

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If AOL had ever ordered me to remove a piece of content from the site for any reason, I would have immediately written about it and disclosed the situation to our readers. And if I...

When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.

Discipline allows magic. To be a writer is to be the very best of assassins. You do not sit down and write every day to force the Muse to show up. You get into the...

…what makes a writer a prophet is his ability to speak truth…

Folding the laundry, completing another project at work, or watching television for the next hour doesn’t build your writing muscles. It only leaves them flabby.

Appreciate the moment of a first kiss; it may be the last time you own your heart.

Madness and chaos are self-destructing but over thinking is the suicide.

WRITER’S NIGHTMARE””I felt a grip on my arm that shook my body, forcefully pulling me toward a tunnel of darkness. The threat of consciousness stole my steady breath. For a moment I believed myself to...

Why do I write?To be somewhere elseTo get free of ourselvesTo stopTo stop being anything or anywhere at allTo disappear

I am, as it were, the created creating—a paradox, for all its rhetorical trappings, at the beating heart of our shared human journey, and one I invite you to struggle with just as I have...

Do you drink?””Of course,I just said I was a writer.

The writer is all alone.

For a novelist, the gaps in a story are as intriguing as material that still exists.