I always thought old age would be a writer’s best chance. Whenever I read the late work of Goethe or W. B. Yeats I had the impertinence to identify with it. Now, my memory’s gone,...

The righteous will possess the earth, and they will live forever on it.” PSALM 37:29. ~Stop being envious no one can make it without the true help of a honest individual or someone who believes...

She looked at the empty page, which remained blank, apart from the small wet dots from her tears, for hours. Her mind was a turmoil of sadness, rage, fear and all those emotions that gave...

A writer is like a stick of rock – the words go right through.

I may not be able to say these words to you but that doesn’t mean I can’t say it to the rest of the world. I’m not a poet. Nor do I try to be...

As much as I’m enjoying stuff out here in Hollywood, I will always think of myself as a comic-book writer who does film and television, not a film and TV writer who occasionally does comics.

Be careful what you say and do around a writer. Your words and actions may become material.

On plenty of days the writer can write three or four pages, and on plenty of other days he concludes he must throw them away.

Books are an extension of our imagination

The greatest artists express their inner self; an artist paints her rage; a writer pens his fear; a dancer expresses her sadness through movement; and a musician’s loneliness echoes in his performance.

And this is what being an artist means, being a poet? To sacrifice yourself for your art, sacrifice your heart for your art, because it’s only through something broken that something beautiful can grow.

I don’t think I have one particular favourite writer. I have many whose works I will always buy or reread – Muriel Spark, Anthony Powell, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ruth Rendell, James Ellroy, William McIlvanney, Kate...

Well, isn’t writing a sport? If you’re doing it right, and you have a deadline, you should be sweating.

To forget oneself-to lose oneself in the music, in the moment- that kind of absorption seems to be at the heart of every creative endeavor.

I feel like I’ve got a novel in me somewhere, but that’s something… I was just talking to a buddy of mine about it, who’s a writer as well, and he’s nearly done with his...

If you’re going to fall in love with anyone, fall in love with a writer. Allow yourself to become immortalised in words.

What one’s goal should be is just to become a better writer and to tell different kinds of stories.

Writers who copy or plagiarise others are dreaming in another man’s sleep.

When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and it is cool or cold and...

If you’re trying to be a successful writer, and you go into a second-hand bookshop, it’s the graveyard of people whose books haven’t been wanted.

A Memory Is Better Than A Phony!

Like a warrior in the battlefield, a writer must endeavour to use his pen to stamp the paper with his identity.

A writer always begins by being too complicated—he’s playing at several games at once.

Being a fiction writer makes you someone who works with irresponsibility.

I had decided that I wanted to earn my living as a writer and the only place in Waterbury where they paid you for writing was at the local newspaper. My opportunity came when the...

…when you’re a writer, you become deeper and more uniquely distinct, the more you go inside yourself…

…writing allows us to reposition ourselves so we can see what is otherwise in our mental blind spots or those things about oneself and the world that we neither can see nor understand from the...

Society will always be too fragile to accept us for all that makes us beautiful.

Maybe one day we’ll find that place, where you and I could be together and we’ll catch our dreams within the waves of change. So hear me, you are not alone.

A writer writes knowing that nothing else will elicit the same kind of satisfaction and personal triumph as molding the written word into a reader’s great experience.

As an author I’m in my head all day and I worry that I lose touch with reality. But then my dog pees on my shoe and I know I’ve found it again.

The simple act of sitting here sipping this cappuccino is its own testament to my commitment to living the writer’s life. Which is to say: doing nothing but doing it exceedingly well.

Discipline is what makes a writer. If writing was like lifting weights, then I’d look like Mr. Universe. Write every day. Give the Muse a chance to get to know you.

His writer’s words poured over her like poetry, and she couldn’t find a single wisecrack to put up between them.

For a writer it’s a genuinely interesting and hopefully profitable era that makes a variety of books available to a variety of readers, extending both what’s available and who gets to read it.

The best part about being a writer is getting the last word.

I want to try and be instinctive as a writer and director.

When you write about what you dream, you become a writer.When you dream about what you write, you become haunted by a curse.

I kind of romanticized what it was like to be a writer and director when I was in my early twenties. Working as a production assistant knocked that right out of me.

…a great future behind him, already

She doesn’t understand that a writer is a special creature–that I’m different from everyone else. I’m not saying I’m superior to other people, just more sensitive, I guess.

I’ve never been high. Writing is my drug of choice. You don’t ever have to come down from that kind of high, I tell ya. And, best part is, it’s free.

I learn my world through writing.

I didn’t need to be a writer to know that I could. Did you have to become a penis to act like a dick?

A writer must be a lifelong reader to be good. And if you want to be a great writer, I’d suggest trying to live a long life by reading the ingredients of the foods you...

There are no lungs like the ones that breathe poetry.

The darkness has ink eyes, and if you stare long enough, you’re going to see it blink black. That’s the moment to start writing.

The actual writing would be easy. All he had to do was to transfer to paper the interminable restless monologue that had been running inside his head, literally for years.

Sometimes you can write about a character’s day in under a minute and sometimes it takes a day just to write about a minute.

Confront the page that taunts you with its whiteness. Face your enemy and fill it with words. You are bigger and stronger than a piece of paper.