People tell me I look like my father. I’ve never seen my dad, so does that mean I look invisible?

That’s why I wanted to be a writer – because someone I loved told me I could be one.

Successful fiction does not need to be validated by ‘real life’; I cringe whenever a writer is asked how much of a novel is ‘real’.

The best thing about being a writer is that ‘work’ is always something you love, plus usually accompanied by tea, coffee and cakes of some sort.

Everything good I have written about can be summed up in two words: Ryan Lilly.” That’s a real quote I read in a real book. Trust me, I’m a writer.

When sitting down to write a letter, it always pays to calm one’s mood, collect one’s thoughts, and have a plan.

I always call ‘Billy Elliot’ a fantasy autobiography because I never wanted to be a dancer, but I got a lot of stick from the other kids about wanting to be a writer and being...

The main impetus for being a writer is thinking, ‘I could invent another world. I’m not terribly keen on this one.’

I Don’t Waste My Time Doing Crosswords, As My Life Is The Only Puzzle I Care To Resolve!

You have the power to heal your life, and you need to know that. We think so often that we are helpless, but we’re not. We always have the power of our minds…Claim and consciously...

If AOL had ever ordered me to remove a piece of content from the site for any reason, I would have immediately written about it and disclosed the situation to our readers. And if I...

When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.

Discipline allows magic. To be a writer is to be the very best of assassins. You do not sit down and write every day to force the Muse to show up. You get into the...

…what makes a writer a prophet is his ability to speak truth…

Folding the laundry, completing another project at work, or watching television for the next hour doesn’t build your writing muscles. It only leaves them flabby.

Appreciate the moment of a first kiss; it may be the last time you own your heart.

Madness and chaos are self-destructing but over thinking is the suicide.

Poe is the only impeccable writer. He was never mistaken.

You have to invest yourself as a reader to be a good writer.

My mom worked as a pharmacist, but she is one of the best storytellers I know. My sister is a gospel and opera singer and my brother, who passed away, was a writer.

Being a writer means expressing with passion your imagination, nightmares, dreams, experiences and reality through words on paper. You are a successful writer when readers criticize, get emotionally affected by, and praise your written work....

the intensityin your eyesburns my penas i write.

To write is human, to receive a letter: Devine!

Just write. That’s my only tip. And read. I guess that’s two.

If you live with dogs, you’ll never run out of things to write about.

…writing surrounds us: it’s not something we do just in school or on the job but something that is as familiar and everyday as a pair of worn sneakers or the air we breathe.

I don’t have problems. I am a writer. I am the problem.

If a movie doesn’t even have financing yet, they’ll do a table read for it at a casting director’s office with actors, for the producer and the writer, just to hear if the movie is...

There’s a way in which filmmaking is a director’s medium and television is a writer’s medium, so even as TV gets more cinematic, it’s still guided by the writer.

He was a writer and words were his weapons.

Most days, writing simply requires work-ethic, discipline, clarity, focus, time. Other days…it will demand absolutely everything of you.

My wish has always been to write my own story, to create a life that’s worth writing about. But is a story worth anything at all if I have no one to tell it to?

I think it is probably more important to attend specialized conventions for a journeyman writer than any other, but it’s useful at all stages of a career, if for nothing else, to find out how...

A writer tries to express those thoughts, which are inexpressible, with beauty and love.

What is the finding of love, but a voice answering a voice?

A writer should be a recluse. Why share words with a few friends in the moment when they can be written down in solitude and shared with everybody at any time?

From … the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be a writer. … I tried to abandon this idea, but I did so with the consciousness that...

…Love can give you the most exhilarating wonderful highs at times… …Then there will be dives that will take all you have just to hold on… Quote on the Title Page of “Love TORN Asunder

What I am interested in, what I write and care about, exists in the slow lane, somewhere between hand-ploughed fields and a pint of real ale.

Description is the color in the canvas of your story.

A good editor can make a respectable writer remarkable, just like a good parent helps a child become amazing.

For me, screenwriting is all about setting characters in motion and as a writer just chasing them. They should tell you what they’ll do in any scene you put them in.

I should be writing …

Some critics will write ‘Maya Angelou is a natural writer’ – which is right after being a natural heart surgeon.

Even great, best selling writers produce works that fall flat from expectations. This writing thing isn’t easy and everything you produce won’t be a best seller, but you must write anyway. You have to write...

A writer’s age at the time of a work’s composition is never irrelevant.

A good writer must be like the birds of a dark forest; you can’t see them, but you can hear their mysterious and wise voices!

When the vision fills your brain and passion hits your gut, the need to write it down cannot be stifled. (Marti Melville)

Maybe all that we are is what people expect us to be.

A real and admirable writer is the one who can write good books but can take criticisms better.