Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

If somebody gave you several thousand dollars and nothin’ to do but write, would you be a writer then? Would you tell your stories, your family’s stories, then?

We knew she [Sylvia] was unusual, because of the seriousness with which she was treated, the lofty importance of her job as guest managing editor, and because she was kept fast at her desk when...

I think it’s really the job of the composer, the artist, the painter, the writer to present people with options. I’m just really reflecting the thoughts and actions around me.

Every writer dreams of a perfect language. Every writer dreams of a language that obeys, that comes to heel. For some this language is spare and pure, pared down to reveal essential truths without ornament...

Menjadi penulis itu harus serakah; serakah dalam membaca!

Life is so beautiful and so short that anything that makes me feel less than too much is nothing at all.

All thoughts, secret or spoken, belong in a coffee table book written in Braille, so you can really feel the emotions.

The thing is, work has simply swamped my whole existence. Slowly but surely it’s robbed me of my mother, my wife, and everything that meant anything to me. It’s like a germ planted in the...

Miranda Writes: Anything you say or do may be used within a story of a writer.

A book called Life of Silence would get everyone talking. I should write it, using invisible ink. Or to really make it see-through, I should hire a ghostwriter.

All great writers share one thing in common:They finished their books.

Writing nonfiction means I tell people’s stories for them, not because they’re special but because we all are.

Considering I’m a writer, you leave me strangely bereft of words.

you will have a ready script – and asked by it to act directly.writer is the moment,the time.

The life of a writer is directed by a mad impulsive muse, that can tell them to cancel all their storyline: a creative divergent devil.

Are you sorry? Do you wish you could do it all again and go off and write novels instead of being a teacher?No. You can’t trade what is for what might have been.

Because his art is sucha difficult one, the writer is not likely to advance in the worldas visibly as do his neighbors: while his best friends from highschool or college are becoming junior partners in...

mind-boggling” moments, when I would doubt myself and what I was writing. It has been said that we, ourselves, are our own worst critics.All the hard work had payed off though, and I created a...

Death is the easy part, the hard part is living and knowing you could be so much more then you’re willing to be.

With all honesty, somewhere between the hello and the dreams I saw you in I fell in love.

Pathos and poignancy are, to me, tactics and techniques; in my work as a writer, I fetch them from my toolbox and use them as required.

Passionate attraction to someone of the opposite sex will make a hero or a fool of a novelist each time.

Don’t be a writer; it’s a terrible way to live your life. There’s nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things,...

The job of the writer is to make revolution irresistible.

Well, I outline fanatically. I am a long thinker and a slow writer, though I am trying to get faster.

As a reader you recognise that feeling when you’re lost in a book? You know the one – when whatever’s going on around you seems less real than what you’re reading and all you want...

This is what drives a young writer out of his head, this feeling that nothing is being said.

At the outset, my notion of being a writer was that you would have moments of inspiration and moments of frustration, when you’d crumple up your pages and toss them away. On one side, the...

Advice for a long and happy life – never tell a writer you have fixed their work. Ever.

There’s more to life than writing.

Sento ancora la follia scorrermi dentro, ma ancora non ho scritto le parole che avrei voluto, la tigre mi è rimasta sulla schiena. Morirò con addosso quella figlia di puttana, ma almeno le ho dato...

The most lies we will ever tell in our lives will be to ourselves.

Just writing a lot doesn’t necessarily make you a better writer. You have to hear yourself as a writer, and the best way to do that is to read your writing out loud.

Spisovateľ je človek, ktorému nestačia knihy tých druhých.

Curt, my husband, is a writer, and he’ll never write again. That’s our funeral, as they say down south. Now in your case, my pet, you’re married to a phenomenon of our own special epoch,...

If you take my stuff apart, you’ll find my choruses of repetitions are picked up almost verbatim from Kurt Vonnegut, and my distanced fracture quality is all from Amy Hempel, who’s probably my favourite writer.

As an author, I like self-help, because clapping can be done by myself, for myself. I should buy gloves.

Like a father with his daughter, the writist plays peek-a-boo with the world. His aim is to evoke that sweet smile, the one that says “i remember you. I am glad you are here again”.

A picture with one word on it is like a thousand-and-one-word piece of literature. At this rate, I should be done with my million-word novel in about 999 minutes.

When I write I feel like I can breathe. It’s like yoga for the brain.

I worked for half a cent a word. I’m not a fast writer to begin with, so for the first few years I had do other things.

To make this world a whole lot brighter,when I grow up I’ll be a writer.

Writing is more than just a method to tell stories. It’s a way to find healing, and to healing others.

I escape disaster by writing a poem with a joke in it:The past, present, and future walk into a bar—it was tense.

I’m finding things out about myself as a person – as a writer – as I write, and so are the people who listen to what I do. But they have this additional aspect of...

You should really stay true to your own style. When I first started writing, everybody said to me, ‘Your style just isn’t right because you don’t use the really flowery language that romances have.’ My...

I fix the cramped, lined pageswith my curious stare. How do youcome to exist?

Improv has been immensely beneficial to me as both an actor and a writer.

I’m not constrained by being a genre writer. Any story I can imagine, I can cast as a fantasy novel and probably get it published.