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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.

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.

Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it’s right, it’s easy. It’s the other way round, too. If it’s slovenly written, then it’s hard to read. It doesn’t give the reader what the careful...

I never wanted to be saved, just loved in ways that would make the Gods jealous.

Being known as a writer did change the relationships I had with directors. The rap on actors is that they always want to inflate their parts. But when directors know you write screenplays and have...

There is no vacation for a writer! Every moment of his life is work!

You know what? It makes you understand why a dog eats its own vomit.

Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal.

I am a meat-loving Southern girl. Add in being a writer, and that means I drink more than I should, too.

And each book has to receive your best effort every single time. No slacking.

To be a writer you have to write — and no academic degree is going to do the writing for you.

A professional man of letters, especially if he is much at war with unscrupulous enenemies, is naturally jealous of his privacy… so it was, I think, with Dryden.

I’ve never yet run out of ideas what to write about… only out of time to write it in.