It’s better to be remembered for what you said, not what you earned.

I am swimming in a sea of words, attempting to keep my head above water.

Writin’ Is Fightin’!

A writer’s life is never boring when you have imaginary friends to play with!

Writer’s block is just another name for fear.

A writer’s brain is like a magician’s hat. If you’re going to get anything out of it, you have to put something in it first

I consider whoever my words land on to be my target, that’s why I like flash fiction, it’s a lot like using a shotgun.

When you have something meaningful to say, you lose your desire for much grammar; for only in the incompetence of words does one seek the redeeming power of vocabulary.

Makebelieve is a writer’s best friend.

The only way to be inclined to write is to write to your inclination.

He, the true writer, is the department store dummy at the very center of the whole establishment, the one left alone on display all night, a price tag stapled to every piece of clothing they’ve...

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...

Some of the best characters are the most flawed characters.

My stories are my children. Some are sweet infants that I coddle and care for. Others are old enough now, they need to damn well get a job!

I’ve never heard a writer feel that way about a device with a screen. Oh sure, they’re functional, practical. We would be lost without them. But just as we need to feel our feet on...

A pen that has clocked up a million words, a lifetime’s memories, is worth more than the centrepiece in a jeweller’s window.

Make today the day you begin that awesome idea you have had for years. Now go, write this book, and remember that today is an important day in history.

I should be writing …

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

A writer writesregardless…even though…notwithstanding…despite…at any rate…anyhow…nevertheless…in the face of…undeterred by…heedless of…and because.The true writer simply continues to write.

Because there are a million thoughts that never sleepand a million more that wake up as each second passes by…And it’s insanity insidebut I can no longer keep quietOh, I can’t speak as wellI need...

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...