I jealously guard my research time and I love fully immersing myself in those dusty old books and papers. It’s one of the most enjoyable parts of my job.

You want to be a writer, don’t know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.

The stories that unfold in the space of a writer’s study, the objects chosen to watch over a desk, the books selected to sit on the shelves, all weave a web of echoes and reflections...

Perhaps I can fight evil with words.

How do you paint a writer’s block?Just fill it with fifty shades of black.

Every writer dreams of writing a book that will touch people.

I write because I am a writer, not because I want to get anything out of it.

Being passionate about something is the most beautiful characteristic you can develop.

Those who are coming from the gutters know that from time to time a piece of us will break off and float back to the floor from whence it came. Wealth can gray your eyes...

I’ll be your Dostoevsky, if you’ll be my Tolstoy. Our life together will be so full of despair that death will be like a gulag full of joy.

A poet, any real poet, is simply an alchemist who transmutes his cynicism regarding human beings into an optimism regarding the moon, the stars, the heavens, and the flowers, to say nothing of the spring,...

As the years went by I became a writer and illustrator, although exclusively of fantasies.

I don’t know what it must be like to be a writer in general, but to be a comedy writer, it’s got to be something – it’s a very special kind of talent.

Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer’s role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.

Rarely will I write indoors, even if it means getting wet during rain, or my hands numb in winter.

Taking on challenging projects is the way that one grows and extends one’s range as a writer, one’s technical command, so I consider the time well-spent.

The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.

Not Even The Greatest Sculptor Can Mold A Masterpiece Out Of Shit!

Only the writers can change or fix the past by going back to edit old works

Becoming a mother has helped make me a tougher, stronger writer.

A writer should bury his thoughts deep and convey them through the characters in his novel.

It’s not that I bounce ideas off of my children as much as it is that having children has had a profound effect on the way I see the world. They have mined my soul....

…If I ever got sloppy and maudlin, it would be for the streets of my childhood—but no self- respecting writer should ever eulogize a slum…

…you are a writer the moment you start writing, not when you’ve sold your first book.

She had more of me then I had of myself. We were both wild birds chasing the stars. We’d lose our way and find new places, close our eyes and fall back towards a constellation...

That night I didn’t say anything. I just watched you leave and in the end, I just stayed sleeping awake. Somewhere between a sweet dream and a beautiful nightmare, hoping one day you’d return to...

as kids we counted on our fingers, as we grew up we started counting more on people, now what do you think was more disappointing?

I’m not going to get into the writer’s skills or what he was trying to portray because that’s not fair. I can only say what I felt was trying to be portrayed there.

Whatever you may have heard, self-publishing is not a short cut to anything. Except maybe insanity. Self-publishing, like every other kind of publishing, is hard work. You don’t wake up one morning good at it....

I’m a struggling writer, I’m struggling to convince people I’m a writer.

I am completely unflustered by whichever medium people choose to read my words. I’m just delighted they’re reading them at all!

What a lonely and silly thing it is to be an Armenian writer in America.

When I’m out and about, I’ll text or email myself from my phone. A smart phone is a great tool for a writer.

I’ve come to realize that love is tragic, somewhere down the line it’s inevitable. Fight for it.

Muses are fickle, and many a writer, peering into the voice, has escaped paralysis by ascribing the creative responsibility to a talisman: a lucky charm, a brand of paper, but most often a writing instrument....

The writing has a meaning only if it is penned down with the heart’s deep feeling.

Writers are creatures of habit, as are humans, but writers aren’t necessarily human, are they?

I’m still very blunt: If you want to be a writer, get a day job. The fact that I have actually been able to make a living at it is astonishing.

Social Media begins with a story – your story.

Because there are hundreds of different ways to say one thing, I, being a writer, songwriter, and poet, speak childishly and incoherently. In speech there is so much to decide in so little time.

The writer Richard Curtis is a genius.

Menjadi penulis itu tak cukup sekadar menjelma kutubuku, tetapi jadilah predator buku!

There are two motives for writing a book: one, that you may save what you know, the other, that you may share what you know with the public.

As a fiction writer, let me make it up, and let me make it up to you. I’ll pen our love story, if you’ll be my co-author.

A writer always writes.

Writing is simply another means for truth to escape, besides crawling out the hole it’s eaten in the author’s belly.

To be a Russian writer at the end of the nineteenth century must have meant bearing an inescapably bitter fate. The more they tried to escape from Russia, the more deeply Russia swallowed them.

Do you think you’re not ‘ready’ to start that big story idea/project you’ve been thinking about forever?Jump in. Write anyway. The only way to make the impossible a reality is to take a leap of...

A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes has the misfortune of getting into print.

I am a writer. Imagining what someone would say or do comes to me as naturally as breathing.