A silent velvet footstep filled me, unwelcome yet so needed. You finally found my hidden shore with grains of time and ocean of the most secret secrets, violet and red; left a trail of deep...

It is not in the gene of an Intellectually blinded person to experience the paradise in the writer’s imagination.

I find pain, rather beautiful. It has a chaotic way of shaking up Everything we once ignored, To empower us to move past Anything that doesn’t serve the best of us anymore.

dynamite the world” the writer inhabited. He claimed that writing stories was an exercise in freedom and quarreling—out-and-out rebellion, whether or not the writer was conscious of it. And this rebellion, Vargas Llosa reminded his...

No writer has an imaginative power richer than what the streets offer.

Its dark and I’m reading my scars because our moments remind me of where I should be.

Magic is when you live your life the way you didn’t picture it and leave nothing behind.

Good writing is remembering detail. Most people want to forget. Don’t forget things that were painful or embarrassing or silly. Turn them into a story that tells the truth.

Being a novelist is not the sort of thing we can shut off. It infests every bit of us until we lose the boundary between Person and Writer, like one of those color charts where...

Creating a world within the imagination one day at a time through words and colors.

I write because if I don’t let it out of my system, I will die with guilt.

The real novelist, the perfectly simple human being, could go on, indefinitely imaging.

Being a writer is a more difficult job than people imagine.

Any writer who puts his words and thoughts out into the public is going to be criticized.

People are laughing at me today for having holes in my pockets, and ink blood on my fingers- a thirty-something old writer, who strangles words from dictionaries, and feeds on the decay of poetry.

No man can stay for forever young, Unless he is a writer.

My fingers burn behind the keys of my typewriter, the lettering fading with every thoughtful strike. The many words I write I dare not stall; my mind perpetually alert for my magnum opus call.

The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation.

Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself.

Never allow anyone to define you! Just be you!

Imagination is the parallel universe of a writer. If he is not responding to you in this world, he is probably responding to someone in the imaginary world.

My cat’s favorite chew toy is a pen. I’d wager that he is a better writer than me.

I don’t think of myself as a director or writer. I think of myself as a filmmaker.

Writers aren’t exactly people…. They’re a whole bunch of people trying to be one person.

Don’t lift my words without permission. It might lead to a hernia.

The privilege of being a writer is that you have this opportunity to slow down and to consider things.

Novels are written word by word. If you can write a word, and then another word, you can write a novel—assuming your novel will be two words long. Here’s a two-word romance novel: I do....

I can’t tell you any more than any other writer can tell you why they write, and I don’t know what my influences are.

If you were waiting for a sign that you’re meant to be a writer…THIS IS IT.

As a writer, you have to believe you’re one of the best writers in the world. To sit down every day at the typewriter filled with self-doubt is not a good idea.

No book can be written till it wants to be written, till it shouts to be written, and raises up a persistent din in the writer’s head. And then, if you want peace, you just...

Every writer should know their target. Aim for the heart ~ hit that and all which follows is sheer ecstasy.

Black is beautiful .Black isn’t power. Knowledge is power. You can be black as a crow or white as snow but if you don’t know and you ain’t got no dough, you can’t go and...

i dont live in a fantasy; just a dream, that’s to hard for some to believe.

We as authors sign a pact with our readers; they’ll go on reading because they trust us to play fair with them and deliver what we’ve promised.

As a writer, I am constantly aware that I take my life in my hands with everything I do and say. It’s just a fact of life. For me it always has been.

The best kind of humans are the ones who stay.

Maybe what this is. What we have, is something that will save us from ourselves.

I struggle as a writer, and I’m convinced that if I was at school now, I’d be termed as having ADS. Two minutes and I’m drifting.

Among all the ‘awards’ that I have hitherto collected, I consider the title of ‘patita’ or ‘fallen woman’ to be the highest. This is an achievement of my long-struggling life as a writer and as...

I was a woman and did not yet think of myself as a writer. I was a mapmaker.

Writers get to construct a magical world that readers can visit in thought and extend their stay with imagination.

Henry had written a novel because there was a hole in him that needed filling, a question that needed answering, a patch of canvas that needed painting—that blend of anxiety, curiosity and joy that is...

I’m a novelist by trade and my job is to write a story rather than reconstruct actual events.

But, it didn’t matter that my mother suspected and knew that I was a writer. It was expected of me to take care of my share of the responsibility of making our way in the...

I am no longer a writer. Just an emotion. An emotion that is unable to stay within its own body, and is therefore, trying to make its way into yours.

A novelist’s characters must be with him as he lies down to sleep, and as he wakes from his dreams. He must learn to hate them and to love them.

Write as if no one is going to read it.

It’s a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life.

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.