Look back, but never look down.

Those who write are writers. Those who wait are waiters.

Conflict. Conflict. Where art thou conflict?

Biographies are best when written chronologically. Boring people don’t make for good biographies.

As you near a finish line, do not slow down. Instead, run faster. Give all you have left until it is done. It is then that you may collapse.

Write like a motherfucker.

I’m pretty sure I’m the only author who intends to take the longest possible route to a destination that will always be over the next hill.

You will not publish 100% of the books you don’t write.

There is a curious idea among unscientific men that in scientific writing there is a common plateau of perfectionism. Nothing could be more untrue. The reports of biologists are the measure, not of the science,...

a purveyor of insipid wet-dreams.

Never try to keep it professional, keep it smutty, write with bodily fluids on sandpaper, and damn the men with clipboards in white suits, the literary bean-counters, the prose police.

Two characters and sexy banter do not a book make, damn it.

We all have a place within us, that would like to rewrite the way our life was written out for us….That’s why people want to become authors.

Grammar, you’re the pickiest noun I know.

My mother, who is a pianist and a fine artist, purchased a piano for me. Twice. This was back when I was a small girl. Pianos, of course, came complete with the quintessential piano teacher...

Writers do not have the privilege of sleep. There is always a story coming alive in their heads, constantly composing. Whether they choose it or not.

Q: Best part about being a musical theatre book writer?A: Explaining what that is.

As far as you are able to gather from hints scattered through these letters, Apocryphal Power, riven by internecine battles and eluding the control of its founder, Ermes Marana, has broken into two groups: a...

What compels me to write now is the same as all those years ago. It is the love of writing and storytelling, driven by a desire to escape.

The hardest thing about being a writer is convincing your wife that lying on the sofa is work.

You may be a serious writer if ….10. your hard drive is littered with random notes and story ideas … but not nearly as littered as your head.9. you keep pen and paper next to...

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.

Writing is a solitary occupation, except for Presidential speeches and sitcoms.

People approach writers, assuming we pull a perfect text out of our nose each time (well spelled). Spelling is the least of it.

Never take yourself too seriously. Learn to let go and let the words flow.

Show me the contract.

If the voice inside your head doesn’t sound anything like you, you might be a writer.

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.

Maybe I write because I’ve learned to show certain parts of my heart on the page that I still struggle to capture in speech.

Dear Aspiring Writer, you are not ready. Stop. Put that finished story away and start another one. In a month, go back and look at the first story. RE-EDIT it. Then send it to a...

Doing nothing can be as rewarding as doing something. And doing very little can be as productive, in a creative sense, as doing a lot.

He would write and write. He would make wonderful things happen. Some of it would be true. All of it would be true. Most of it would be true.

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...

There’s really only one good writing habit: You must write constantly.

…I have this one nasty habit. Makes me hard to live with. I write……writing is antisocial. It’s as solitary as masturbation. Disturb a writer when he is in the throes of creation and he is...

You say you’re a writer but you’re depressed. Not an excuse; write from there. Write some depressing sh*t. Believe me. You will have plenty of readers who can relate. Remember writers write.

If insanity is defined as doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results – then success is insanity squared!(2012 SCBWI New Member Conference; Richmond, VA)

I’m trying to give my character voice but he won’t speak.

Everybody is born with a little bit of writer in them. We all come with the desire to work hard to see our creations come to life on the page. But it is those who...

Let life be the foundation. Be brave. Wander deep inside yourself to the little room no one knows about. Fling the door wide open and write.

If we are artists- hell, whether or not we’re artists- it is our job, our responsibility, perhaps even our sacred calling, to take whatever life has handed us and make something new, something that wouldn’t...

I write into an old book that smells of dust and whose pages are floppy with damp. Sometimes the ink splodges onto the paper, other times it will barely leave the nib of my pen.

A quote says a lot about the author !

The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer.

It is my personal belief that writing cannot be taught.

I have a great book. It’s called Stantasyland. Except I don’t have the money to buy a million copies to put it on the bestsellers list.

There is no greater feeling of accomplishment than to create a world that solely exists in your imagination and be able to pull someone into this hidden place inside of my thoughts. To make someone...

I am no longer a writer. Just an emotion. An emotion that is unable to stay within its own body, and is therefore, trying to make its way into yours.

We writers constantly try to build up our own confidence by getting published, making sales, winning prizes, joining cliques or proclaiming theories. The passion to write constantly strips this vanity aside and forces us to...

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