Write the words “The FIve Senses” on an index card and tack it to a bulletin board above your desk. You should have a bulletin board above your desk, if at all possible. Some place...

Being goal-oriented instead of self-oriented is crucial. I know so many people who want to be writers. But let me tell you, they really don’t want to be writers. They want to have been writers....

I’m a miner, and I’m always dirty, because I’m constantly digging. Am I shoveling for gold? Hardly. I’m unearthing this hearty land searching for the next great American novel. If I dig deep enough, I’m...

A scene should be selected by the writer for haunted-ness-of-mind interest. If you’re not haunted by something, as by a dream, a vision, or a memory, which are involuntary, you’re not interested or even involved.

I don’t categorize myself as an 85-year-old woman who has written an erotic novel. I categorize myself as a writer who’s written an erotic novel.

The pen that was once a gift has come to represent all that I hope to achieve.

Writing is an adventure. There is no way to know where it will take you, and what you will find. You could find success. You could find fans. Or, best of all, you could find...

You write once and you can call yourself a writer, but it takes three novels before you can call yourself a novelist. The first two could have just been lucky. One day, I will finish...

Writers fly with imaginary wings.

I write because my imagination won’t let me quit. And because I want to read what I wrote and share what I’ve written.

THE MANY FACES OF SURVIVALSunday, August 10th at 2:00 PSTDachau Liberator, medical whistle-blower, award winning writer, college professor and world renowned garlic farmer, Chester Aaron, talks about the hard choices he’s had to make, why...

Ache my bones, flame my muscles, tingle my nerves, but you will never taint my beautiful mind & I will overcome this condition with the belief that I already have.

You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.

Always write exactly what you’re feeling at the exact moment when writing something like poetry or an emotional novel. Put yourself, pour all emotions into your work…make yourself cry, feel joy if you are writing...

She was a beautiful dreamer. The kind of girl, who kept her head in the clouds, loved above the stars and left regret beneath the earth she walked on.

Maybe I hope too much. Maybe I dream too much or maybe I love too much to just give up on you.

My words, my writing, my actions—these have never been for myself alone, either directly or indirectly. There is no such thing as an artist who creates art only for himself. That is masturbation.

Who is better off? The one who writes to revel in the voluptuousness of the life that surrounds them? Or the one who writes to escape the tediousness of that which awaits them outside? Whose...

Surely it is an odd way to spend your life – sitting alone in a room with a pen in your hand, hour after hour, day after day, year after year, struggling to put words...

I had achieved the most important things in my life when I married Joan and had the sons. Given the choice between Joan and the boys, and being a writer, I world give up being...

If you can write; then you are a writer – Rayvon L Browne

If we don’t value the people who inspire us (and money is one mark of that) then what kind of culture are we building?

Ben hik yeciyim diye sizlerden ayrı şeyler düşünecek değilim. Sizin düşündüklerinizden başka bir şey de düşünemem. O halde bu adamın hik yesi ne olabilir? Sakın benden büyük vakalar beklemeyin, n’olur?

Fiction demands structures and recognizable shapes. Big surprises only draw attention to the writer’s hand.

Embrace your journey and those who come across your path. Be gracious in your endeavors. Focus on your craft. Those who support your dreams now and feel your sincere humility and gratitude will be there...

When people starts to enjoy a writer’s pen, he becomes a legend even if his stories are neither long nor publicly surrounded by expectations.

When I got recognized as a writer, when I got the Emmy, I was more excited than the Emmys I had gotten as an actor.

It is possible to be a great novelist – that is, to render a veracious account of your times – and a bad writer – that is, an incompetent practitioner of applied linguistics.

You sure about this writer thing son?

Nothing makes you feel smaller than New York City…

My writing, it’s my way of making sense of everything. My way to feel whole. May I never be complete and may I never feel content – please, let me always have the need, always...

A writer should never wait for inspiration but be the inspiration.

You see, unlike most writers today, I do not use a computer. I write the old-fashioned way: on the walls of caves.

The core of your true self is never lost. Let go of all the pretending and the becoming you’ve done just to belong.Curl up with your rawness and come home. You don’t have to find...

Bestseller doesn’t necessarily mean good writer. I think it takes 10,000 book sales to make the bestseller’s list, and at about 9 dollars a pop for my book, if I had an extra $90,000 dollars...

Life’s too short, drive it like ya stole it!

A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.

12.Se escrevo o que sinto é porque assim diminuo a febre de sentir. O que confesso não tem import ncia, pois nada tem import nciaPor: Bernado SoaresIn: Livro do Desassossego

If you only had a year left to live, what book would you write?Now, write that book.

No writer should minimize the factor that affects everyone, but is beyond control: luck.

Well, Betsy,” he said, “your mother tells me that you are going to use Uncle Keith’s trunk for a desk. That’s fine. You need a desk. I’ve often noticed how much you like to write....

I’d wanted to be a writer and when I came back to New York worked as a musician too, but I found my writing starting to get more and more referential to cinema.

I haven’t had writer’s block. I think it’s because my process involves writing very badly.

I would be more frightened as a writer if people thought my movies were like science fiction.

A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.

They fuck you up, your mum and dad? No, that wasn’t it at all. Well, they did do that, perhaps, but they also allowed you to become the person, and the writer, that you had...

The chaos in me is the chaos in you. Like the love in you is the love in me. So maybe we’re both a little crazy. Enough to believe we’re found where dreams are born...

We’re only instruments of love, flowing through heaps of pain hoping one day we’d hatch a passion of our own.

The artist must be like that Marine. He has to know how to be miserable. He has to love being miserable.

My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue [is] the pen of a ready writer.