Look back, but never look down.

Literature might be called the art of story, and story might in turn be called a universal language, for every culture we know of has a tradition of storytelling. No doubt stories have touched your...

A tweet a day keeps writer’s block away.

Always being myself and my salve, which is life. I’m not lonely, if that’s what it seems like. Always writing things down.

A writer fails, not when a reader is not moved; but when, as a reader, the writer is not moved.

He has always admired writers who each day begin a journey towards the unknown and who nevertheless spend all their time sitting in a room”.

The closer one gets to the speed of light, the slower time travels. The exact thing is true when completing a book.

Imagination is the real magic that exists in this world. Look inwards, to see outwards. And capture it in writing.

To sit down so often with nothing to say,-to say something so often, almost without consciousness of saying and without any remembrance or having said,-is a power of which I will not violate my modesty...

I never understood, what a starving artist was until I became one.

Each time I write, I reaffirm my soul.

The sooner you finish procrastinating, the sooner you can get back to your art.

I write to believe in goodness.

A pena está para o pensamento como a bengala está para o andar. Da mesma maneira que se caminha com mais leveza sem bengala, o pensamento mais pleno se dá sem a pena. Apenas quando...

Sometimes the writing just comes and we’re like, oh yeah. Gotta love when that happens.

We all have different voices for different occasions. I just turn those voices into characters and put them in my books.

I’m not gonna lie…sometimes this whole writing thing is a lonely business.

Though this child came in with nothing but excess baby fat, chemical brain waves, and mother and son bodily toxins on his legs, he had a fate fit for a modern day demigod.

You say grace before meals. I say grace before I dip the pen in the ink.

My brain is on fire!” to try to help these people understand that this is a headache that needs attention! That’s a metaphor, right? And you use it so that you can be understood. Now...

Writers are like actors too. For every story we create, we must get under the skin of the characters and role play with our writing.

If one can, anyone can.If two can, you can, too!

To refer even in passing to unpublished or struggling authors and their problems is to put oneself at some risk, so I will say here and now that any unsolicited manuscripts or typescripts sent to...

A story is a part of the writer’s soul. Told to the world.

The planet you inhabit is a single plane of infinite dimensions, stretched like a guitar string, and standing before you like a concubine waiting for your command.

Writers haven’t got any rockets to blast off. We don’t even trundle the most insignificant auxiliary vehicle. We haven’t got any military might. So what can literature do in the face of the merciless onslaught...

Not every owner of a qualified high-qualified for the position, and not every man did not have the opportunity to obtain higher qualification to the circumstances of what that he is ignorant or not fit...

… The Book is more important than your plans for it. You have to go with what works for The Book ~ if your ideas appear hollow or forced when they are put on paper,...

Don’t fool yourself. Talking about writing is not the same as actually doing it.

A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing...

If a pen can communicate our thoughts, dreams, and emotions and be the voice of our soul, then ink is the medium that carries the message.

…if he can write a book at all, a writer cannot do it by peeping over his shoulder at somebody else, any more than a woman can have a baby by watching some other woman...

Flora was in that state where the spirit may be willing but the flesh is weak and wishes to go on holiday – and where the flesh in most cases wins hands down with a...

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

Write, write, write! Get your you-know-what in the chair and write more books: write the books of your heart and don’t let stress steal your joy.

Of course, the writer can impose control; It’s just a really shitty idea. Writing controlled fiction is called “plotting.” Buckling your seatbelt and letting the story take over, however… that is called “storytelling.” Storytelling is...

The last thing we discover in composing a work is what to put down first.

Caught red-handed for exclamation abuse.

The mist after rain, uninterrupted rainfall on rooftops, pitter-patter intellect. The thoughts I leave behind like footsteps.

I have found that a writer is formed not so much by their experiences but by the way in which they view and capture those experiences. Like vivid, rainbow metallic skin cells on the wings...

I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.

Write for impact first, money second. If you do it the other way around, you’ll end up with less of either.

The greatest moments of creativity come in absolute solitude, when one’s mind is free from distraction and able to probe the depths of the impossible.

The writer sat besides the weeping Gilgamesh, witnessed the sinking of the unsinkable ships. He was there, and he wasn’t. Like a naturalist observing the tarn of life from an unseen bubble of neutrality.

I assure you, I’ve come to one of those natural breaks in the book, where one can walk away and let things go on working in the subconscious. It’s true, don’t look so unbelieving. It...

…you are a writer the moment you start writing, not when you’ve sold your first book.

Murphy is a writer’s best friend, but you have to keep an eye on him, or he’ll steal the silver.

I live within my daydreams and nightmares; through that, I have learned to create, and I never cease from doing so.

Uma hipótese leva, na cabeça em que se estabeleceu ou mesmo na cabeça em que nasceu, uma vida comparável à de um organismo, já que assimila do mundo exterior apenas o que lhe é proveitoso...

Write on!