Edinburgh is a comfortable puddle for a novelist.

I’ve carved out a career for myself really as a writer.

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...

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.

Being a writer brings out a sassy woman inside me, and I love her so.

A masterpiece does not unfurl its wings immediately. It takes time. It will fly when it is ready.

What should a good children’s book be like? If you ask me, I can tell you after thinking long and hard: It must be good.

I like to discover something new each day, to interpret the world in a way others might not, like a child might approach new experiences.

You become a writer because you need to become a writer – nothing else.

I’m the wave pushed by the wind, always receding before reaching the shore.

An editor sleeping with his writer was not as bad as a psychoanalyst sleeping with his patient, or even a professor sleeping with an undergraduate, let alone a president with an intern.

Being lonely is not a bad thing for a writer.

A good writer is a magician; she unfolds the dark secrets of mind.

I have yet to find that one perfect phrase that epitomizes all the mysteries of the universe. Luckily, I doubt to ever pen it in this lifetime, for then the seeking ends; miserable is the...

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.