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

Grammar, you’re the pickiest noun I know.

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.

A cliffhanger is when …

A writer leads a hyphenated-life with words

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

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.

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

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?

Climax: It’s all downhill from here.

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.

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

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.

The best kind of day is a writing day

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…

Write on!

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.

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

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

A tweet a day keeps writer’s block away.

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...

The power of the delete key.

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 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.

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 loss Muse!

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,...

I don’t do math.

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

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