You Don’t Have To Be A Crook To Be Successful!

A writer out of loneliness is trying to communicate like a distant star sending signals. He isn’t telling, or teaching, or ordering. Rather, he seeks to establish a relationship with meaning, of feeling, of observing....

Writing is the light of imagination playing over shadow of thoughts.

I’m afraid that surprise, shock, and regret is the fate of authors when they finally see themselves on the page.

I started creating;Myself From The Inside Out & My God I WishIHadDoneItSooner.

Sometimes just looking into a person’s eyes can tell a graphic story and a brilliant novel if you have the ability to turn it into words.

Here are the Ten Commandments for a writer: Create, Create, Create, Create, Create, Create…

I don’t remember ever having writer’s block. If I sit in there for four hours, I’ll usually have something.

Every broken piece of me fell on every broken piece of you and when I took the missing parts, like the emptiness of me I saw the emptiness of you and I poured my half...

The greatest adventure is to have no fear for the blaze that lies ahead.

I write because I love it, not because I excel at it. But because I write, I shall slowly excel at it.

It’s rather disconcerting to sit around a table in a critique of someone else’s work, only to realize that the antagonist in the story is none other than yourself, and no one present thinks you’re...

With iPhones, nobody has an excuse for writer’s block. If you’re at Whole Foods getting your green tea extract and you have a melody, you just drop it into your voice memo and save it...

I came to the conclusion that I am not a fiction writer.

The purpose of a chronicler of moods and deeds does not require him to express his personal views upon the grave controversy above given.

I remember calling the council’s cemetery department to ask about body decomposition in different soil types. Once they had verified that I was a novelist and not a sicko, they were extremely helpful.

A writer need not devour a whole sheep in order to know what mutton tastes like, but he must at least eat a chop. Unless he gets his facts right, his imagination will lead him...

Nowadays, the Internet decides if you’re good, not the big man in the big office. No matter how important that man thinks he is, everyone else knows that he’s not important anymore, and the Internet...

Those who write are writers. Those who wait are waiters.

But how?” my students ask. “How do you actually do it?” You sit down, I say. You try to sit down at approximately the same time every day. This is how you train your unconscious...

Sometimes we dream of things that we’ve always wanted–of things that we have been searching for our whole lives without knowing it…and other times we wake up and know what we have to do. I...

You are not your poetry. Your self-esteem shouldn’t depend on whether you publish, or whether some editor or writer you admire thinks you’re any good.

My youngest son is a writer. He wrote for ‘The District’ and ‘CSI: NY.’

I am a worried person with a stressed out soul, living a simple life with no capital.

Providing a writer isn’t put off by conventions – and some are – attending them can be a nice break from the necessary isolation of writing.

The purpose of a writer is to show the beauty and tragedy of life in the reader’s own mirror.

The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.

I wear a helmet when I write, because if you’re doing it right, writing is dangerous.

It isn’t dying I’m afraid of, it isn’t that at all; I know what it is to die, I’ve died already. It is the endless obliteration, the knowledge that there will never be anything else....

I’m a fast writer.

Being an author is to have a toe in the creative pool and a foot in the vat of commerce.

Jednog dana, pisac otkriva da nije više u stanju ništa da napiše. Šta god pokuša, kojim god putem krene, ne uspeva da stigne do celovite rečenice. U prvi mah, pisac se ne predaje i pokušava...

On a related note, I think for many of us, the first step in becoming a good writer is to write crap. In all seriousness, none of us are born knowing how to write. Almost...

If a writer falls in love with you, you can never die.

Brush strokes write poetry harmonized through the cords of an artist’s imagination.Color, contrast, simple compassion splattered across paper leaves tainted with the melody of the silent wind.Gasping, grasping, simply glancing at the souls of those...

I read obsessively when I’m writing. I think there are two kinds of fiction writers, those who read incessantly while they write and those who can’t read at all, lest their individual voices get overwhelmed,...

She is a writer, what the fuck do you expect from her other than passion, truth and goddam soul?

…perhaps in actions I’m less of a man – but, oh the words – such lovely words…

Being a writer is not the point. Writing is.

But dear, don’t be afraid of love it’s only magic.

The fear of loving a dog, is knowing one day they’ll be gone and you could never find eyes that express all that you feel.

Whenever I work with different artists, I expand as a song writer, as a producer, and I always want to try and find the bridge between my world and their world.

There are very few professions in which people just sit down and think hard for five or six hours a day all by themselves. Of course it’s why you want to become a writer —...

I read not for entertainment but to feel what the writer has felt while writing even though if it was fiction.

One of the best things that happened for me as a playwright is becoming a comic-book writer.

You have to have empathy, knowledge and compassion for your characters if you’re a writer.

Archive material is vital to the writer of historical fiction.

La mia novella di Natale, Un Cuore nella Bufera, inizia così…Mi sveglio di soprassalto, gli occhi spalancati nel buio, la notte rischiarata dal bagliore della neve che fuori continua a cadere. Trattengo il respiro, quasi...

To be read. To be heard. To be seen. I want to be read, I want to be heard. I don’t need to be seen. To write requires an ego, a belief that what you...

My writing flows out of my doctorhood. They are not separate things. They are one. I think the foremost connection between being a doctor and being a writer is the great privilege of having an...