It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.

Fresh, solid ideas feel like gifts to writers, therefore every morning is Christmas.

Love takes courage, if you’re doing it right. Not the kind of courage a soldier has, but the kind of courage a writer has. Say, I’m a writer, and I’m a lover—therefore I must be...

A writer draws a road map where readers walks with their love, joy, anger, tears, and dismay. Every story, every poem, has different meanings for every reader.

The trouble with a baby, for writists, is that they take away your useful melancholy, even the energy to invent some.

Sometimes writing is easy. Other times it’s as hard as trying to eat a whole whale, after the whale has just eaten you.

It’s 4:00 in the afternoon and I’m just now putting on clothes. The life of a writer is as free as the pizza I just had delivered is not.

As a writer, I always tend to take the liberty and the great artistic luxury of a composite form of writing.

I’m not a great writer.

Every writer in the history of the world has been afraid to put words on the page. But we only remember those who overcame that fear.

To be a decent writer you must have both empathy and imagination. While these attributes aid your art, they can plague your soul. You don’t simply suffer your own sadness, experience your own longing and...

You cannot prove your worth by bylines and busyness.

The better the writer, the more complicated the dangler.

Sometimes I don’t even know why I’m writing what I’m writing…I’m just following these people around and taking notes.

I’m just a girl, with a pen and a dream

…writers, like priests, should have compassion…and a sensitivity to pain…

To be a better cook, cook more. To be a better writer, read more.

She was broken, I think it’s because she loved too much and she was always blind to the fact that love too is sometimes broken.

I wrote her story because she wanted to live forever and I loved her far more with every word, too much! Even in death her life sought out beauty, for her moments were consumed with...

A real and admirable writer is the one who can write good books but can take criticisms better.

What reader or dreamer doesn’t imagine the romantic life of a writer, who lingers between the desk and the fridge in the morning and in the evening attends cocktail parties thrown by nouveaux riches and...

I always thought old age would be a writer’s best chance. Whenever I read the late work of Goethe or W. B. Yeats I had the impertinence to identify with it. Now, my memory’s gone,...

The righteous will possess the earth, and they will live forever on it.” PSALM 37:29. ~Stop being envious no one can make it without the true help of a honest individual or someone who believes...

She looked at the empty page, which remained blank, apart from the small wet dots from her tears, for hours. Her mind was a turmoil of sadness, rage, fear and all those emotions that gave...

A writer is like a stick of rock – the words go right through.

I may not be able to say these words to you but that doesn’t mean I can’t say it to the rest of the world. I’m not a poet. Nor do I try to be...

I definitely have an affection for detective fiction, and when I first read Dashiell Hammett’s ‘The Maltese Falcon,’ that book and its author made an enormous impression on me as a reader and a writer,...

As a writer, I’ve always been interested in others.

For a writer, published works are like fallen flowers, but the expected new work is like a calyx waiting to blossom.

Books are an extension of our imagination

The greatest artists express their inner self; an artist paints her rage; a writer pens his fear; a dancer expresses her sadness through movement; and a musician’s loneliness echoes in his performance.

And this is what being an artist means, being a poet? To sacrifice yourself for your art, sacrifice your heart for your art, because it’s only through something broken that something beautiful can grow.

I don’t think I have one particular favourite writer. I have many whose works I will always buy or reread – Muriel Spark, Anthony Powell, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ruth Rendell, James Ellroy, William McIlvanney, Kate...

Well, isn’t writing a sport? If you’re doing it right, and you have a deadline, you should be sweating.

To forget oneself-to lose oneself in the music, in the moment- that kind of absorption seems to be at the heart of every creative endeavor.

I feel like I’ve got a novel in me somewhere, but that’s something… I was just talking to a buddy of mine about it, who’s a writer as well, and he’s nearly done with his...

If you’re going to fall in love with anyone, fall in love with a writer. Allow yourself to become immortalised in words.

What one’s goal should be is just to become a better writer and to tell different kinds of stories.

Writers who copy or plagiarise others are dreaming in another man’s sleep.

When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and it is cool or cold and...

If you’re trying to be a successful writer, and you go into a second-hand bookshop, it’s the graveyard of people whose books haven’t been wanted.

A Memory Is Better Than A Phony!

Like a warrior in the battlefield, a writer must endeavour to use his pen to stamp the paper with his identity.

A writer always begins by being too complicated—he’s playing at several games at once.

Being a fiction writer makes you someone who works with irresponsibility.

I had decided that I wanted to earn my living as a writer and the only place in Waterbury where they paid you for writing was at the local newspaper. My opportunity came when the...

…when you’re a writer, you become deeper and more uniquely distinct, the more you go inside yourself…

…writing allows us to reposition ourselves so we can see what is otherwise in our mental blind spots or those things about oneself and the world that we neither can see nor understand from the...

Society will always be too fragile to accept us for all that makes us beautiful.

Maybe one day we’ll find that place, where you and I could be together and we’ll catch our dreams within the waves of change. So hear me, you are not alone.