Writers begin with a grain of sand, and then create a beach.

Writers should cut as close to the vein as possible. The readers don’t want to be covered in your warm sticky blood, but they want to come as close to it as possible.

Writers start with a grain of sand, and then create a beach.

Writers are in many ways like demi-gods. With one stroke of a pen they can give life to a character, or strike them from existence, with nary a twinge of grief at their passing.

I didn’t know that painters and writers retired. They’re like soldiers – they just fade away.

…how many writers still dare compare a woman to Nature, like Campion? – there is a garden in her face – how lovely…

Sometimes it is the reader that sucks, not the book.

Through the act of writing, a writer learns more about himself than he could ever imagine.

Writer does nothing,But think deeply.

But writing is a queer business. If one does anything that is sharp and keep enough to go over the line, to get itself with the work that is taken seriously, one has to have...

Quotes are echos of voices transporting wisdom, humor, and love. Returning again to the human condition, fleeting once more as a dove.

My favorite writers are all Jews – David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark – well, you get the picture.

We need to stop trying to get attention by seeing who can scream and cry the loudest. Write something worth reading and your voice will be heard.

poetry. i am not writing it.(make way for me please)it is my skin. dripping with light.

Writers of novels live in a strange world where what’s made up is as important as what’s real.

I have this rage that I can’t explain. It’s sad.

An author is a person who can never take innocent pleasure in visiting a bookstore again. Say you go in and discover that there are no copies of your book on the shelves. You resent...

As I build sentences, I roll them sometimes on my mouth to taste them as I write them. I have this emptying of the mind and the focusing on that single thing, that infinitesimal moment...

Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.

…every writer I had ever known wrote his best work when he had his back up against the wall and thought he would never write another word.

He possessed the logic of all good intentions and a knowledge of all the tricks of his trade, and yet he never succeeded at anything, because he believed too much in the impossible. Surprising? Why...

Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes.

Every person has a great story to write.

Most straight people, and many gay people, especially those who came of age more recently, don’t understand how momentous and difficult coming out was to men and women of this generation. It seems so obvious...

For most digital-age writers, writing is rewriting. We grope, cut, block, paste, and twitch, panning for gold onscreen by deleting bucketloads of crap. Our analog ancestors had to polish every line mentally before hammering it...

I remember when your name was just another name that rolled without thought off my tongue.Now, I can’t look at your name without an abundance of sentiment attached to each lettter.Your name, which I played...

No.’It’s not a bad word. And it is very important to use at times. Practice saying it in the mirror. It’s empowering.

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.

Writers and artists build by hand little worlds that they hope might effect change in real minds, in the real world where stories are read. A story can make us cry and laugh, break our...

Great writers experience their dreams. They put them on paper, where others can read about them.

To say that a writer’s hold on reality is tenuous is an understatement-it’s like saying the Titanic had a rough crossing. Writer’s build their own realities, move into them and occasionally send letters home. The...

With my career I want to either make something or make an impact. Writers both make something, and make an impact.

Write for impact first, money second. If you do it the other way around, you’ll end up with less of either.

…But…to sing,to dream, to smile, to walk, to be alone, be free,with a voice that stirs and an eye that still can see!To cock your hat to one side, when you pleaseat a yes, a...

It would have been better to do what everyone else does, neither taking life too seriously nor seeing it as merely grotesque, choosing a profession and practicing it, grabbing one’s share of the common cake,...

Many people hear voices when no one is there. Some of them are called mad and are shut up in rooms where they stare at the walls all day. Others are called writers and they...

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

Every writer knows that words are the enemy.

Those who can’t, and can’t teach, translate.(attrib: F.L. Vanderson)

This story was a story of our time. And a writer’s attempts not to fathom his time amount but to sounding his mind in it.

I’m still struggling with the fact that due to my own (selfish) desire to be a writer, my children probably won’t have the same opportunities I had growning up. For most students, however, I genuinely...

When Great Trees FallWhen great trees fall,rocks on distant hills shudder,lions hunker downin tall grasses,and even elephantslumber after safety.When great trees fallin forests,small things recoil into silence,their senseseroded beyond fear.When great souls die,the air around...

What about his style?” asked Dalgliesh who was beginning to think that his reading had been unnecessarily restricted.”Turgid but grammatical. And, in these days, when every illiterate debutante thinks she is a novelist, who am...

If one can, anyone can.If two can, you can, too!

And so I just kept writing to myself.

It is my personal belief that writing cannot be taught.

Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope, some day, to find something to say.

The text you write must prove to me that it desires me. This proof exists: it is writing. Writing is: the science of the various blisses of language, its Kama Sutra (this science has but...

By seeing how small the world is, I realize how capable I am. I can conquer anything. Anywhere. Anyone.

Why would anybody be intimidated by mere words? I mean, neither I nor any other athiest that I know ever threatens violence. We never threaten to fly planes into skyscrapers. We never threaten suicide bombs....