As a writer, as a lyricist, you’re just trying to make sure that you’re not repeating yourself. And that’s a danger for a lot of people. So for me, I just try to keep taking...

Love allows us to remember the joy, and forget the pain. That’s why I write things down, to help me remember.

The approach to digital culture I abhor would indeed turn all the world’s books into one book, just as Kevin (Kelly) suggested. It might start to happen in the next decade or so. Google and...

There was a writer in the ’20s called Christopher Morley, who I remember a little bit of, who had some influence on me, but I couldn’t tell you what it was.

As a child I was an inveterate liar. As opposed to now, I am a Novelist.

I don’t remember deciding to become a writer. You decide to become a dentist or a postman. For me, writing is like being gay. You finally admit that this is who you are, you come...

A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul.

I’m a busy author with a sense of Humor, so hang, it’s a bumpy ride”!

I write to create a sky where the moon can touch the sun and not get burned.

The serious writer was aware of a paradox at the heart of his art: his inner world, the place of the strongest stories, was infinite, but it was also embedded in – if this was...

Wherever a writer grew up, they’re obviously influenced by that area, and I’m sure their characters are pulled from those experiences.

I’m a writer first and an editor second… or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing requires a very specific set of skills, and I don’t claim to have all of them at my command.

Every word I write is another stroke that takes me to the shore of a completed book.

How could I live above the water or breathe under it. How could I swim in darkness consumed in an ocean of you? Falling or flying towards you, losing or finding myself in you and...

The seed of our love will always cube within the wonder of infinite.

As a writer, you must truly possess a love for words.””Yes, that’s right,” I agreed.”I’ve noticed that some authors favor particular words, making frequent use of them. Do you have a favorite?”I nodded assuredly and...

People add color to their story because they think it happened in black and white.

Kalo nggak nulis, ya baca. Kalo nggak baca, ya nonton film saja lah.

There is no greater feeling of accomplishment than to create a world that solely exists in your imagination and be able to pull someone into this hidden place inside of my thoughts. To make someone...

I don’t want to be a writer where all the characters sound the same. There’s a facility in that kind of writing.

When a chap is passionate, the readership can sense it.

A writer should not run around with a mirror for his countrymen; he should tell his society and his times things no one ever thought before.

The self-addressed stamped envelope. The representation of everything that was wrong with the old publishing industry.

A great writer picks up on those things that matter. It’s almost like their radar is attuned to the most significant moments.

You are lucky to be one of those people who wishes to build sand castles with words, who is willing to create a place where your imagination can wander. We build this place with the...

It is no worse, because I write of it. It would be no better, if I stopped my most unwilling hand. Nothing can undo it; nothing can make it otherwise than as it was.

We aren’t suggesting that mental instability or unhappiness makes one a better poet, or a poet at all; and contrary to the romantic notion of the artist suffering for his or her work, we think...

Write down what your reader needs, no more, no less. Reading should be textured, but not obscure. Henry James could make an entire paragraph out of a single sentence. The reader is completely sensory deprived...

All I wanted was my art and the chance to be the creator of my own world, my own reality.

The Book of Life, I’m still writing it—both literally and literarily. So far I’ve written the Table of Contents. Right now it’s more of a coffee table.

You go to New York or L.A., and every waiter wants to be a writer, director or actor. But there’s a common thread: everybody wants to do it because they love it.

I think I’m an American writer writing about Latin America, and I’m a Latin American writer who happens to write in English.

You’ll drown in my love story, if I ever write it using a fountain pen.

Marriage can be made to work if both the partners can see beyond themselves and understand the limitations,needs and abilities of the other person and are willing to embrace the positive and negative aspects of...

Anyone can write but not everyone can crystallize that perfect moment which can make a heart skip a beat and dig deep into one’s soul.” – Elizabeth Esguerra Castillo’ s Quotes

Editing one’s writing is as easy as lighting a match while riding a bicycle.

When writing isn’t going well-then the bad thing about being a writer is that I also have the freedom and flexibility to do something badly, and no one else can fix it for me.

I write because sometimes I feel I cannot breathe…until I do.

Cowardice is the most terrible of vices.

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.