You don’t have to take it out on my typewrite ya’ know. It’s not the machine’s fault that you can’t write. It’s a sin to do that to a good machine.

Writers are always alone, even in a room bursting with noises of the familiar.

It’s good to write badly. Things can only get better.

I hope I don’t write TOO many books! When I look at authors who have written too many books, I wonder to myself “When did they live?” I certainly want to write BECAUSE I live!...

It seemed to me then that to have published a book – any kind of book – would be the greatest possible happiness I could ask from life.

Your writing should be filled with simple complexities and complex simplicities. Because that is life.

To become a WRITER I had to learn to INTERRUPT, to speak up, to speak a little louder, and then LOUDER, and then to just speak in my own voice which is NOT LOUD AT...

Publish a book before you’re too old to read it without glasses.

Writing nonfiction means I tell people’s stories for them, not because they’re special but because we all are.

credit” must come from.

Every book I’ve read appears in my writing.

I’m a writer. I’m a Christian. I like sex. But I haven’t had it. I believe in waiting until marriage. But that doesn’t mean I want my characters to.

…writers are a savage breed, Mr. Strike. If you want life-long friendship and selfless camaraderie, join the army and learn to kill. If you want a lifetime of temporary alliances with peers who will glory...

Don’t try to be different. Just be good. To be good is different enough.

Writer. Another word for poor.

My best writing surfaces out of the need to rebel, the desire to end emotional chaos and the importance I place on embracing that independent streak inside us all that makes us want to break...

Writing isn’t difficult. Writing well is difficult. What is most difficult is being with the interior experience that manifests as resistance to writing.

I am a writer who came froma sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.

El escritor escribe su libro para explicarse a sí mismo lo que no se puede explicar”.

When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and it is cool or cold and...

A writer’s work is never done, unless he or she has no readers.

You’ll have days of complete lack of faith in your abilities. But you have to keep coming back. That’s when you know you’re a writer – when you take the failures and appear at the...

Writing is a little bit like prostitution. First you do it for love. Then you do it for a few friends. Then you do it for money.

Remove the comma, replace the comma, remove the comma, replace the comma…

You want to be a writer, don’t know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.

A autentica concisão da expressão consiste em dizer apenas, em todos os casos, o que é digno de ser dito, com a justa distinção entre o que é necessário e o que é supérfluo, evitando...

I don’t do math.

Tell it fast before you get scared and silence yourself. You’ll never wish you’d held back a little more.

I do not recommend writing a screenplay in two weeks.

Words raced thru his mind and his fingers ached to capture them all on paper.

Why do I write? Out of fear. Out of fear that the memory of the people I write about might go lost. Out of fear that the memory of myself might get lost. Or even...

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

I am grateful to the Lord for blessing my path as a writer.

Letters orchestrated into a song of words create the symphony of a novel.

Every word I write is another stroke that takes me to the shore of a completed book.

Introduction of deus ex machina is a tell-tale sign of sloppy plotting.

Predictions are uttered by prophets (free of charge); by clairvoyants (who usually charge a fee, and are therefore more honored in their day than prophets); and by futurologists (salaried). Prediction is the business of prophets,...

Me to Comma: I will never get use to you wanting to butt your way into my sentences — even if you’re right.

Writing, music, sculpting, painting, and prayer! These are the three things that are most closely related! Writers, musicians, sculptors, painters, and the faithful are the ones who make things out of nothing. Everybody else, they...

If you really have talent, you know, you’ll go on writing – whatever people say to you.

You know you are a writer when characters inside your brain keep demanding, ‘This is my story! Now tell it or I will never leave you alone!

I think there are two types of writers, the architects and the gardeners. The architects plan everything ahead of time, like an architect building a house. They know how many rooms are going to be...

Writing with a biro is the emotional equivalent of giving your loved one a plastic rose on Valentine’s Day.

Writers leave a trail of magic everywhere they go.

Fiction is a careful combination of observation, inspiration, and imagination.

…ugly interlopers threaten to choke off your story, depriving it of much-needed nutrition, sunlight and water. Identify and cut those weeds – the life-sucking adverbs, the shade-killing descriptions that don’t move the story forward, the...

It is a wise writer who knows his own subconscious.

Plot comes from the mind but the characters come from the heart!

Why do I love writing YA? Because I get a chance to re-live my youth knowing all I know now…

Me to characters: talk to me people.