I have always noticed that these artists and writers are very unbalanced

I’m a schoolteacher and a writer. So that’s what I do.

My stories are my children. Some are sweet infants that I coddle and care for. Others are old enough now, they need to damn well get a job!

I want to burn with excitement or anger and bleed, bleed out my words. I want to get all fucked up and write raw and ugly about all these things I see and am and...

As a writer, you sit around a computer all day, and it’s too easy to open another tab and keep Rotten Tomatoes there.

Only a writer can ride a time machine and change the future when he is not there.

The sky never falls with the rain. It is never weighed down by all that it carries. It takes all of its anchorsand turns them into stars. Learn from this.

He thinks he’s a writer. He couldn’t write the alphabet, even if you spotted him the first 25 letters.

Haven’t I told you scores of times, that you’re always beginners, and the greatest satisfaction was not in being at the top, but in getting there, in the enjoyment you get out of scaling the...

I think every American kid grows up dreaming about being in the movies. That’s completely normal for us. But I mostly wanted to be a writer, and I got taught the scriptwriting program.

TODAY IS A GREAT DAY TO MAKE ART.

I am a writer, I’m supposed to be intense and emotional,

I’ve always been a reader and a writer.

I’m not your expert on Africa or animals or whatever. I’m not a travel writer or maker of documentaries. I was someone who doesn’t know very much, trying to communicate.

I’m not a writer who teaches. I’m a teacher who writes.

It’s a nice feeling, Knowing, Someone lived easier Because I was alive.

He must shape simultaneously (in an expanding creative moment) his characters, plot, and setting, each inextricably connected to the others; he must make his whole world in a single, coherent gesture, as a potter makes...

Writing has become more than just a profession, and hobby…it has become a way to express my feelings and pour my entire soul into the pages of my books. Thank God for the little things...

It’s funny, for all it took was a broken heart and that alone was enough, enough for her to do everything she ever dreamed of.

Maybe love was meant to save us from ourselves.

You do not learn how to write novels in a writing program. You learn how by leading an interesting life. Open yourself up to all experience. Let life pour through you the way light pours...

I was always a writer, by which I mean I was always scribbling away, doing something with pen and paper.

The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major.

Your life experience is a moving picture, of which you are writer, director, performer, producer and critic.

I was, a near grown man, sat in his dank, dark and rickety digs, feverishly hovering about the glare of a computer screen like a disorientated moth, one searching for a flaming light of recognition...

The financial value put on the job of the writer and the misconceptions around that make it extremely difficult to enter the profession.

A writer’s job is done once the lines touch reader’s forbidden chords.

I am so happy that I made someone cry today – don’t worry I’m a writer. It’s when they make me cry that it’s a problem.

People who label erotica writers as sluts/men-whores remind me of the mob that once condemned smart women as witches. Mankind has not evolved much.

I chose to be a writer no more than I chose to be female.

The best kind of day is a writing day

It all comes down to the written word and just how comfortable I am writing them.

But it is a writer’s duty to write and speak and record the truth, always the truth, no matter whom may be offended.

The greatest tribute one can give to a writer is that it is simply enough to read him.

Why do people always expect authors to answer questions? I am an author because I want to ask questions. If I had answers, I’d be a politician.

Though this child came in with nothing but excess baby fat, chemical brain waves, and mother and son bodily toxins on his legs, he had a fate fit for a modern day demigod.

A good writer sees the world, not through his own eyes, but through his reader’s mind.

Nothing fills the world quite as poetry does. A poet need not dwell on the pagecount of his life.

I’m a practised writer now. But when I began, I had no idea what this was going to be. I just knew that there was something inside me that wanted me to tell who I...

I spent 20 years of my career primarily being a writer for hire.

I’d love to be a writer one day

Some writers are born. Others learn. I was born a writer but have a lot to learn.

The only way to overcome fear and doubt is to go against them.

Everything is an echo of something I once read.Dream, hope, and celebrate life!Love always comes back in a song.One thing we all have in common is a love for food and drink.Memories never die, and...

That conversation with the taxi driver suddenly made clear to me the essence of the writer’s occupation. We write books because our children aren’t interested in us. We address ourselves to an anonymous world because...

You can be a member of all of the romance writers associations, take part in all of the networking available, or win the latest romance award… but guess what? None of that makes a difference...

A writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow runs the danger of being misunderstood the day after tomorrow.

It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane.

A microphone is to a comic, what a pen is to a writer. There’s power in it.

A true writer is someone the gods have called to the task.