There are lots of guys out there who write a better prose line than I do and who have a better understanding of what people are really like and what humanity is supposed to mean...

Because here’s the thing: No matter how much one tells stories of magical beasts or impossible worlds, in the end, it is always the world of here and now one is writing about. The better...

It’s a great day to write a best-seller.

Whenever people ask me, “How are your books doing?” or, “How is your book doing?” I just say, “It’s okay.” I mean, what am I supposed to say? I’m a writer; that means I write...

Writing is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

A writing day is like any other day. Except I live in my pajamas, I forget to eat, and I suddenly look up, wondering when day turned into night.

I write whenever it suits me. During a creative period I write every day; a novel should not be interrupted.

Writing help us to express our thoughts, to share experiences, to think, to love, to inspire, to motivate, to challenge, to liberate, to learn, to hope, to smile and to wonder.

There are times you wake up in the middle of the night, fingers hit the keyboard and you allow words to flow. That is a writer.

Every word I write is a seed that I may nurture into a small, beautiful poem or a tall, soaring tree.

All you have to do is put one word after another, and remember how great it feels to be a writer.

Needless to say, the business of living interferes with the solitude so needed for any work of the imagination. Here’s what Virginia Woolf said in her diary about the sticky issue: “I’ve shirked two parties,...

There is only one way to overcome the difficulty of writing, and that is to write. Thought only becomes effective and productive at the time of writing.

If I write as well as I golf, I’m in trouble!

When I write, I write obsessively. I try to pace myself, but some fires are too hot to put out.

The night before a deadline, I usually am in desperate need of a back rub. And new wrists. And candy. And little mice to secretly finish the job while I am sleeping.

Writers have come to master nearly every trade. They are inventors and entrepreneurs of character, plot, and dialogue. They are the eager scientists that can’t wait to try out their new experiment. They are the...

Memory is the mother of the muses, prototype Artist. As a rule picks and highlights what is important, omitting what is accidental or trivial. Occasionally, however, is mistaken as all the other artists. Nevertheless it...

Reality is just a matter of perception.

The only thing you really need to be a writer is time. Regular, consistent time, quality time when you’re not tired. I write on the bus to and from work, that’s my time, 1 or...

If you’re a writer, you’ll know it by the distinct feeling of only being able to breathe properly when alone with your characters. All other times, I’m panting–just pining for the next time I can...

Writing is the neck muscle allowing us to see the important stuff in our periphery.

Writing is not a searching about in the daily experience for apt similes and pretty thoughts and images… It is not a conscious recording of the day’s experiences ‘freshly and with the appearance of reality’…...

Images are not quite ideas, they are stiller than that, with less implication outside themselves. And they are not myth, they do not have the explanatory power; they are nearer to pure story. Nor are...