Novels are written word by word. If you can write a word, and then another word, you can write a novel—assuming your novel will be two words long. Here’s a two-word romance novel: I do....

I can’t tell you any more than any other writer can tell you why they write, and I don’t know what my influences are.

If you were waiting for a sign that you’re meant to be a writer…THIS IS IT.

As a writer, you have to believe you’re one of the best writers in the world. To sit down every day at the typewriter filled with self-doubt is not a good idea.

No book can be written till it wants to be written, till it shouts to be written, and raises up a persistent din in the writer’s head. And then, if you want peace, you just...

Every writer should know their target. Aim for the heart ~ hit that and all which follows is sheer ecstasy.

Black is beautiful .Black isn’t power. Knowledge is power. You can be black as a crow or white as snow but if you don’t know and you ain’t got no dough, you can’t go and...

i dont live in a fantasy; just a dream, that’s to hard for some to believe.

We as authors sign a pact with our readers; they’ll go on reading because they trust us to play fair with them and deliver what we’ve promised.

As a writer, I am constantly aware that I take my life in my hands with everything I do and say. It’s just a fact of life. For me it always has been.

The best kind of humans are the ones who stay.

Maybe what this is. What we have, is something that will save us from ourselves.

I struggle as a writer, and I’m convinced that if I was at school now, I’d be termed as having ADS. Two minutes and I’m drifting.

Among all the ‘awards’ that I have hitherto collected, I consider the title of ‘patita’ or ‘fallen woman’ to be the highest. This is an achievement of my long-struggling life as a writer and as...

I was a woman and did not yet think of myself as a writer. I was a mapmaker.

Writers get to construct a magical world that readers can visit in thought and extend their stay with imagination.

Henry had written a novel because there was a hole in him that needed filling, a question that needed answering, a patch of canvas that needed painting—that blend of anxiety, curiosity and joy that is...

I’m a novelist by trade and my job is to write a story rather than reconstruct actual events.

But, it didn’t matter that my mother suspected and knew that I was a writer. It was expected of me to take care of my share of the responsibility of making our way in the...

I am no longer a writer. Just an emotion. An emotion that is unable to stay within its own body, and is therefore, trying to make its way into yours.

A novelist’s characters must be with him as he lies down to sleep, and as he wakes from his dreams. He must learn to hate them and to love them.

Write as if no one is going to read it.

It’s a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life.

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.

If you are a good writer – and I think I am – you are able to handle any kind of group and imagine their lives.

I wanted to say all these things about how you just have to hold on to the things you love and let go of all the rest.

William Shakespeare was a brilliant writer and he only wrote the truth. So, if I don’t believe it, I have to work really hard to see what that truth is so that I do; that’s...

The pretentiousness of literature really annoys me; the way a writer is held as this sort of magical person to be revered on the stage. Everything I do on tour is to try and destroy...

A butler supplies food to nourish your body, but a writer nourishes your mind through writing.

I don’t know if I had ever found my place in the world until I fully committed to being a writer.

A Letter to Andre Breton, Originally Composed on a Leaf of Lettuce With an Ink-dippedCarrotOn my bed, my green comforterdraped over my knees like a lumpy turtle,I think about the Berlin Wall of years that...

Realize that by hurting your own characters, you are not a sadist. You are not deliberately hurting your loved ones merely to watch them suffer. You’re giving a gift. You’re helping them grow and develop....

Putting pen to paper without first deciding the route and pace at which to scribe is like setting off on a bicycle without first checking the tyres.

If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of...

I learned to be a regional writer by reading people like Flannery O’Connor. She was a huge influence.

You Don’t Have To Be A Crook To Be Successful!

A writer out of loneliness is trying to communicate like a distant star sending signals. He isn’t telling, or teaching, or ordering. Rather, he seeks to establish a relationship with meaning, of feeling, of observing....

Writing is the light of imagination playing over shadow of thoughts.

I’m afraid that surprise, shock, and regret is the fate of authors when they finally see themselves on the page.

If you’re a writer, the insight of other writers – if there’s some kind of Holy Grail message on how to deal with writer’s block or how to deal with any problem that can come...

…you can have a dark heart and be a writer, but you can’t have a black one..

Never be afraid to write what you believe. If the message speaks the truth, others will fear your words for you.

Sometimes those we love break us to bind us whole within the transition.

Use love as the only instrument to question the world around you.

Only a writer would slap a bumper sticker on her car that read, ‘Seriously, I’d rather be working’.

This conversation with myself has an overwhelming aroma of narcissism.

If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn’t be writing screenplays. I’d be writing novels.

If a book is not alive in the writer’s mind, it is as dead as year-old horse-shit

TV is where a writer can write his novel.

I love writing, and just as much, I love undertaking research.