You have to have empathy, knowledge and compassion for your characters if you’re a writer.

Archive material is vital to the writer of historical fiction.

La mia novella di Natale, Un Cuore nella Bufera, inizia così…Mi sveglio di soprassalto, gli occhi spalancati nel buio, la notte rischiarata dal bagliore della neve che fuori continua a cadere. Trattengo il respiro, quasi...

To be read. To be heard. To be seen. I want to be read, I want to be heard. I don’t need to be seen. To write requires an ego, a belief that what you...

In my early 30s, I started to realise I was avoiding something on a personal level, but also as a writer. I was in denial about who I was, and was trying to be someone...

A blank piece of paper and a pen or a pencil is always all ears.

I have a writer’s memory which makes everything worse than maybe it actually was.

On every page, confidence fights with self-doubt. Every sentence is an act of faith. Why would anybody want to do it?

Early in her career, Muse engaged her skills for technical purposes, such as document translation and schematic visualizations for government entities. She continued to write and paint poetically, in secret, using her pen name, Muse....

… and it was quite a sad thing,the way I watched you sleep like nothing could go wrong and I did not want to harm it, I did not want to blur it, but how...

During the act of making something, I experience a kind of blissful absence of the self and a loss of time. When I am done, I return to both feeling as restored as if I...

Writers fish for the right words like fishermen fish for, um, whatever those aquatic creatures with fins and gills are called.

There is only one rule for writing and that is go ahead and start writing.

I kind of want to be seen as an American writer, not just a New York writer.

Liquid quotes are more drinkable. Make your writing as fluid as possible, so people can chug it in one tasty gulp.

Writing is the only art form where a good number of the artists make a slice of their living criticizing one another in print, in public.

I am happiest sitting against a tree, with my notebook or sketchpad on my knee, capturing the moment.

Whether you are a writer or an actor or a stage manager, you are trying to express the complications of life through a shared enterprise. That’s what theatre was, always. And live performance shares that...

I suffer depression only in the sense that I am a writer. We don’t have proper jobs to go to. We are on our own all day. Show me a writer who doesn’t get depressed:...

You Can’t Replace A Star with A Lightbulb

I realize that I am typically vulnerable only when and where and how much it suits me. I can choose my writer words and even go back and edit.

You cannot teach creativity—how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be.” Mario Vargas Llosa

The writer’s secret is not inspiration – for it is never clear where it comes from – it is his stubbornness, his patience.

He who has experienced the mystery of the nature is full of life, full of love, full of joy. Radiance emanates from the whole existence itself, it does not know the meaning of holding back....

…each person is required to ask, ‘what is my authority?’ – on what do you base your decisions? if it’s yourself, then you are without excuse…

Every word I write is a seed that I may nurture into a small, beautiful poem or a tall, soaring tree.

To love is to soar in the wild unexpectedly.

The truth is I didn’t need therapy; I just needed to feel loved and know that someone out there craved my attention.

Every writer must acknowledge and be able to handle the unalterable fact that he has, in effect, given himself a life sentence in solitary confinement.

Negative experiences repeat as long as they remain useful to you.

I’m very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I’ve never really considered myself a writer.

I dont write books so that you can be fascinated with me. I write them so you can be fascinated with YOU!

The biography of a writer – or even the autobiography – will always have this incompleteness.

It’s part of a writer’s job to be nosy about everything.

The other day, when I was deciding where to place a mountain range, how to make a river’s flow detour around underground stalactite caves, and what precise color to give the sky at sunset, I...

Don’t quit. It’s very easy to quit during the first 10 years. Nobody cares whether you write or not, and it’s very hard to write when nobody cares one way or the other. You can’t...

I will not stop singingthe Muses who set me dancing.

I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I just try to warn people who hope to get published that publication is not all it is cracked up to...

A writer is the one who loves to write . . . on and about anything . . . And this clears that I am a writer!!

A writer, like a sheriff, is the embodiment of a group of people and without their support both are in a tight spot.

I hate being a writer. i tend to stick my emotions in things that cannot reciprocate. I’ve become a whore for my craft.

… and I realise the only way to tell the others is through the way my voice can take these broken wordsand turn it into music. Turn it into poetry.And I sing to make myself...

When you’re a mid-list writer, it pays to write fast.

A writer’s duty is to draw a picture that expresses more inner beauty, deeper anxiety, and more complex tragedy than a real character ever can.

I became a writer when I learnt how to read — how to listen; how to see, smell, touch, and feel. But not everyone who knows these things, not everyone who writes, or publishes, is...

So you went from one reader to two readers?” you’d be absolutely correct. And after I had congratulated you on your keen guess, I’d thank you for being 50% of my reading base.

I wasn’t that good you know. What I was was a guy who could write a little, publishing in magazines surrounded by people who couldn’t write at all. So I looked pretty good. But I...

There was a day when writers actually read,” he grumbles. “They could quote Keats and Socrates. Now anyone with a keyboard and a fifth-grade education can call themselves a writer.

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.