I don’t think all writers are sad, she said.I think it’s the other way around—all sad people write.

A friend worth knowing tolerates your flaws while a friend worth keeping loves you in spite of them.

There’s something beautiful about facing tragedy, you crack open a new, you find yourself in the parts of you; that can finally be explored freely with out judgement or guilt. Where to from here doesn’t...

I keep on going with this sad and hungry and sordid, this limping and mutilated story, because after all I want you to hear it….By telling you anything at all I’m at least believing in...

Writer is a miner; he works in the gloomy places like a miner to get the precious material.

I am not a slow writer, I am not a fast writer . . . I am a half-fast writer.

She had the power to change the world but she couldn’t save the one she loved.

Authors are sick people.

There is no good or bad author; there is only one kind of an author, that who connects with the readers.

My father was a psychiatrist and a social worker but he was a very talented painter and musician and writer on the side.

College had little effect on me. I’d have been the same writer if I’d gone to MIT, except I’d have flunked out sooner.

I think that at the bottom of all art lies the impulse to preserve.

TV is a writer’s medium.

My characters are quite as real to me as so-called real people; which is one reason why I’m not subject to what is known as loneliness. I have plenty of company.

You can never know enough about your characters

I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don’t get any patients.

A critic is a legless man who teaches other people to run

If I were a writer and not a singer in 10 years, I don’t know how I’d feel about writing really personal songs and getting someone else to sing them.

A fine writer must appreciate and accept the power of language manifestly.

I’m like a unicorn; I’m a midlist writer who hasn’t done anything else but write. But because I wasn’t amazingly famous, I didn’t become Stephanie Meyer, or even a huge literary name like a Jonathan...

The existence of the writer is an argument against the existence of the soul, for the soul has obviously taken flight from the real ego, but not improved itself, only become a writer.

I see the author as the person who has written; the writer, the one involved in the process of writing. And they’re not necessarily friends. The writer is the one I want to reinforce; the...

To be a great writer, you must be nomadic. I’d recommend the hunter/gatherer lifestyle for anybody serious about being nonsensical.

Not the builder, but the writer, creates the road to the future.

It is an awesome tragedy in this life that, when asking what a person is and they reply doctor or lawyer or engineer, we don’t say “Well thats a nice little hobby, but why don’t...

All Quiet on the Western Front.

The more you leave out, the more you highlight what you leave in.

On cable now, the writer is king. Any actor chases that.

Listen to advice. You don’t know how many writer’s conferences I’ve taught at where at least half the audience fights all the conventions of the field.

Originality is not writing the story that has never been told, but writing the stories only you can tell.

I would never make up a character who didn’t exist or an event that didn’t transpire. If you’re a real writer, you have other tools in your toolbox to build drama.

Betsy was so full of joy that she had to be alone. She went upstairs to her bedroom and sat down on Uncle Keith’s trunk. Behind Tacy’s house the sun had set. A wind had...

My way of dealing with the world has always been to make fun of it and observe it but not take part in it. That’s how I became a writer. But when you have kids,...

The art is more important than the artist. The work is more important than the person who does it. You must be prepared to sacrifice all the you could possibly have, be, or do; you...

If it’s your greatest dream, you wouldn’t give up so easily.. So do yourself a favour, find it again & start focusing on anything that will help you materialise it, it’s not going to be...

And so I just kept writing to myself.

Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.

To be human is to be broken and broken is its own kind of beautiful.

…she (the artist, the writer) doesn’t wait for inspiration, she acts in the anticipation of its apparition.

Stories of Fantasy are nothing more than the retelling of our own triumphs and sad, sad tragedies … Tod LangleyI have that painted on my office wall and love to stare at it.

All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long...

I dream that one day I would be a published writer and people would read my books – if not, I would be living in the mountains in a small hut, near a pond where...

As a novelist it is my job to tell stories that inspire and entertain but I am increasingly mindful that many of these historical tales (which of themselves are fascinating) relate directly to our issues...

…but [I] had sworn on the very day of my demobilization never to be under anyone’s orders for the rest of my life. Somehow I must live by writing.

If I knew what I was thinking […] I would never have become a writer.

A critique is a necessary tool to sharpen your craft.

The writer dreams awake. The killer nightmares awake. (L’écrivain rêve éveillé. – Le tueur cauchemarde éveillé)

I just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very much.

I have found that a writer is formed not so much by their experiences but by the way in which they view and capture those experiences. Like vivid, rainbow metallic skin cells on the wings...

Freedom can choke you if you don’t know how to handle it.