Creative people need strong encouragement.

Imaginative writers often project their own monsters and meanings on basic facts.

My pen beats faster as I write with my heart

Grammar, you’re the pickiest noun I know.

If I were to be honest, I’m probably fifty percent bagel. Okay, fine, sixty percent.

The beginning of every writing session is like setting down a road unknown.

A cliffhanger is when …

Never interrupt an author when he or she is ‘in the zone’, else you’ll understand the real meaning of ‘writer’s nib’.

I’m not into this whole “move with the times” thing. I reckon we should just decide on a year and stick with it.

Day after day, week after week; writing great fiction takes time, emotion, skill and effort.

A writer leads a hyphenated-life with words

I love Edit. He gives me tons of second chances to make things just right between us.

Growing up, I used to climb out my window onto the roof and look up at the stars. There, in the quiet, I would write stories inside my head.

Passionate attraction to someone of the opposite sex will make a hero or a fool of a novelist each time.

Climax: It’s all downhill from here.

Confront the page that taunts you with its whiteness. Face your enemy and fill it with words. You are bigger and stronger than a piece of paper.

This faulty light fitting at the front door with the dangerously flickering bulb looks rather festive. Who says I don’t do Christmas?

A writer who’s afraid to express their opinions is not a writer – they’re just a person with a pen.

There are times you wake up in the middle of the night, fingers hit the keyboard and you allow words to flow. That is a writer.

The best kind of day is a writing day

When Tito was born, I was writing my fifth novel. That was how I saw my future: living in Venice and jumping from novel to novel. Tito’s birth changed all that.

The novelist is condemned to wander all his life. Homeless and blind like Oedipus he wanders until death. And so let us protect the novelist and adore him, with pity, honor, and love.

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.