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.

The name of a great writer is usually bigger than the title of his book. Both literally and figuratively.

Ill love you with every little bit of everything that has ever consumed me and I will forever love you and forever find you in every life time and so on. Until the stars die...

I kept loving and loving and loving. Every waking hour, I marveled on how these moments would make made me feel. I wanted to love the world and be the change it so deliciously craved.

I was always an outsider, always standing outside, observing and trying to figure things out. Which is exactly what you need to do as a writer, I suppose.

Tattoos are a permanent commitment of passion

It’s strange, isn’t it. You stand in the middle of a library and go ‘aaaaagghhhh’ and everyone just stares at you. But you do the same thing on an aeroplane, and everyone joins in.

I’m a writer. anything you say or do may be used in a story.

If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead.

Be Shameless. Experiment. This is the only way to identify your true passion.

Most people put off my mother’s erratic behavior to the fact that she was a writer, as if that just explained everything. To me that was just an excuse. I mean, brain surgeons can be...

There are some catastrophes that a poor writer’s pen cannot describe and which he is obliged to leave to the imagination of his readers with a bald statement of the facts.

I’m not much of a joke writer.

Once you are at the point where you can call yourself a writer, there’s no going back.

The writer is the duelist who never fights at the stated hour, who gathers up an insult, like another curious object, a collector’s item, spreads it out on his desk later, and then engages in...

I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do.

Majina ya vitabu yanapaswa kuchaguliwa kwa mantiki na kwa makini ya hali ya juu mno, kwa sababu ni miongoni mwa vitu vya kwanza watu wanavyoviona na kuvisoma. Watu wakivutiwa na jina la kitabu, au mwandishi;...

Why I write music? Because it hurts not to.

The people who don’t give you a standing ovation for the hurdles you cross are just afraid that you might win the race. They do not cheer you but they sit, lurking on the sidelines,...

A writer’s thoughts can act as an Aladdin’s lamp, which can enlighten and open the mind of a reader, by showing opportunities and beauties of life.

With our writings, we can right the world.

Early on I set out to write the next Great American Novel, and then later on I set out the silverware and enjoyed my dinner in silence.

What I really want is to be recognized as a writer; that someday, my poetry — this is an interesting paradox — would be taught in English classes; for my name, along with my poetry,...

My taste in the films I’ve taken as an actor is similar to what I’d do a director or writer: all quite odd, challenging stuff, slightly off-the-wall.

If a pen can communicate our thoughts, dreams, and emotions and be the voice of our soul, then ink is the medium that carries the message.

A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.

I never wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a book illustrator. I used to hurry home from school and draw.

It’s Easy To Feel Like A Big Fish, When Your Pond is Just A Puddle!

A writer leads a hyphenated-life with words

As a writer, you have to first of all write what you want to. Listen to advice, by all means, but don’t get bogged down in it.

If you’re a writer, the answer to everything is yes.

As a writer, my main objective is to tell the story urgently – as if whispering it into one ear – and to know the characters intimately.

Who am I? I’m just a writer. I write things down. I walk through your dreams and invent the future. Sure, I sink the boat of love, but that comes later. And yes, I swallow...

Every book I’ve read appears in my writing.

It was never about the world being too big, it was more like she was too much for the world to handle.

She got inside me with her story. I could feel her flowing in me and far, faraway I related in parallel. Her smile was a reflection of my own brokenness. It defined buried feelings that...

A writer writesregardless…even though…notwithstanding…despite…at any rate…anyhow…nevertheless…in the face of…undeterred by…heedless of…and because.The true writer simply continues to write.

You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do—and they don’t. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James,...

No writer of a portion of the Bible was perfect. It was the direct and miraculous operation of the Holy Spirit that what they wrote is without mistake.

Because there are a million thoughts that never sleepand a million more that wake up as each second passes by…And it’s insanity insidebut I can no longer keep quietOh, I can’t speak as wellI need...

This is for everyone who has ever looked at the stars, or gazed from atop a hill, or across the sea and wondered…

Sometimes I create a character from a scrap – a mere mention that has been left behind.