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To refer even in passing to unpublished or struggling authors and their problems is to put oneself at some risk, so I will say here and now that any unsolicited manuscripts or typescripts sent to...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

To prepare to write, I don’t surround myself with books. I surround myself with feelings.

I write because that is what I am supposed to do.

Well, I definitely advise anyone who wants to write, write. Don’t let anyone tell you that you shouldn’t. Don’t let anyone tell you that you can’t. Because a lot of people can be very discouraging...

I before E except after C. Weird?By rebelling against the rules the word itself denotes its very meaning: of strange or extraordinary character, odd, fantastic.I think all writers are weird.

I remember when I first began writing, I would spend maybe five or six hours on perhaps two paragraphs, and at the end of the day, not only were the paragraphs pretty terrible but I...

Why does the writer write? The writer writes to serve — hopelessly he writes in the hope that he might serve — not himself and not others, but that great cold elemental grace which knows...

Discipline allows magic. To be a writer is to be the very best of assassins. You do not sit down and write every day to force the Muse to show up. You get into the...

When the vision fills your brain and passion hits your gut, the need to write it down cannot be stifled. (Marti Melville)

But then all writers smoke, don’t they? And drink? And sit in front of computer screens till their arteries clog and muscles atrophy?

You see, I believe that you cannot be taught to ‘write.’ You can be taught grammar and punctuation, but you cannot be taught to be a writer. That has to come from within.

Anyone who says writing is easy isn’t doing it right.

Living is about capturing the essence of things. I go through my life every day with a vial, a vial wherein can be found precious essential oils of every kind! The priceless, fragrant oils that...

The show must go on, and so must The Book.

Live inside your stories, yes, but do not hide behind them.