Creative people need strong encouragement.

Write on!

Where the writing takes place doesn’t matter to a publisher, but it matters a great deal to the author.

Remove the comma, replace the comma, remove the comma, replace the comma…

Each night, I close my eyes and dream. In the morning, I open my eyes again, but the dreaming doesn’t stop.

The best of my essence is shown to those who value my energy and appreciate my love, some would call it selfish, I call it selective.

A tweet a day keeps writer’s block away.

I didn’t need to be a writer to know that I could. Did you have to become a penis to act like a dick?

There’s nothing more intoxicating than creating something from nothing. Creating something from yourself.” Professor Piper

The power of the delete key.

I like working among ‘creative clutter’. It gives me a sense of activity and achievement.

It is only when you open your veins and bleed onto the page a little that you establish contact with your reader. If you do not believe in the characters or the story you are...

I know it’s difficult in the beginning. But, listen. If you have the impulse to write, do yourself a favor, do the world a favor, and write.

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...

I loss Muse!

Changing imagination into fiction is what I love to do.

Does talking to yourself in the voice of your fictional character count as being social?

I don’t do math.

Meeting writers is always so disappointing. I got over wanting to meet live writers quite a long time ago. There is this terrific book that has changed your life, and then you meet the author,...

It’s hard to be a dreamer sometimes. I’m tired.

When I reach for my pen, nothing is out of reach.

Writer. Another word for poor.

Writing is a lonely business, which if allowed publicity and socializing it might deteriorate. Supportive people understand the need of a writer to withdraw to the solitude of oneself.

For some reason, when people meet me and find out I’m a writer they always ask if I write children’s books. Um… please don’t let your kids read my books. Well, unless your kids are...

If you see it in Strunk and White it’s so.

Publish a book before you’re too old to read it without glasses.

we inhale life and exhale words. that’s just what writers’ do–

I have written until I fell asleep with my computer on my lap. That can’t be normal.

Replace your old books with the book you’ve always wanted to write.

Me to characters: talk to me people.

I before E except after C. Weird?By rebelling against the rules the word itself denotes its very meaning: of strange or extraordinary character, odd, fantastic.I think all writers are weird.

Sometimes, they just make coffee cups too small.

Hey Revision. You can be a pain but you do make Book better.

As with writing by candlelight, one’s greatest ideas come from ‘the flickering’ between darkness and light.

My spirit has been around far longer than my soul–I’ve lived several lifetimes already. And one this novel has been written, I will have lived several more.

The defining lines of reality have always been a bit blurred for me.

My ideas are a shapeless mass that my writing molds into beauty.

I’m in love with writing, but sometimes I swear it hates me.

Putting pen to paper without first deciding the route and pace at which to scribe is like setting off on a bicycle without first checking the tyres.

Crippled and crazy, we hobble toward the finish line, pen in hand.

Rejection. Rejection. You can’t handle rejection!

Spread sunshine and inspiration.

To my fellow writers’ I say, ‘Write. Build an imaginary world like nobody’s watching.

My fingers burn behind the keys of my typewriter, the lettering fading with every thoughtful strike. The many words I write I dare not stall; my mind perpetually alert for my magnum opus call.

I’ve never been high. Writing is my drug of choice. You don’t ever have to come down from that kind of high, I tell ya. And, best part is, it’s free.

Never be afraid to write what you believe. If the message speaks the truth, others will fear your words for you.

Good editors are priceless.

I am happiest sitting against a tree, with my notebook or sketchpad on my knee, capturing the moment.

Who thought up the dumb idea to arrange the memoir section in the bookstore by subject?

When you write a manuscript, it feels like being in a relationship with someone. You’ll hate it, get bored with it, be pissed of, like you just want to break up. But, just like any...