Writing has become more than just a profession, and hobby…it has become a way to express my feelings and pour my entire soul into the pages of my books. Thank God for the little things...

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

Life is painful and disappointing. It is useless, therefore, to write new realistic novels. We generally know where we stand in relation to reality and don’t care to know any more.

Who is better off? The one who writes to revel in the voluptuousness of the life that surrounds them? Or the one who writes to escape the tediousness of that which awaits them outside? Whose...

It’s not that [writers] are pompous jerks. We are insecure. We feel like we’re fading away in this vast sea of scriveners.

Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay an author.

Bookish folk aren’t what they used to be. Introverted, reserved, studious. There was a time when bookish folk would steer clear of trendy bars, dinner occasions and gatherings. Any social or public encounters would be...

may this poetrybe the homeyou will someday come back to.

Never give up. Dare to Dream. Dare to believe.

Scotland consistently produces world-class writers.

Stories are our gifts to a world that doesn’t see us.

It’s about the possibility, or otherwise, of meaning in the world. And the possibility, or otherwise, of writing. And the possibility, or otherwise, of the resolution of everything into some coherent, cogent vision.

We writers constantly try to build up our own confidence by getting published, making sales, winning prizes, joining cliques or proclaiming theories. The passion to write constantly strips this vanity aside and forces us to...

People visit exposed and vulnerable; writers live there

Sophisticated readers understand that writers work out their anger, their conflicts, their endless grief and rolling list of loss, through their stories. That however mean-spirited or diabolical, it’s only a story. That the darkness in...

And I’ve learned to hit the brakes at these kinds of stop signs rather than t-boning a tanker truck filled with 200 proof mediocrity.

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!...

In the new style, homosexuals and heterosexuals could be equally unhappy, equally happy, and equally screwed up.

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

It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.

I swooned again – I had that moment of falling in love with reading again.

Nothing is louder than silence.

A writer’s brain is full of little gifts, like a piñata at a birthday party. It’s also full of demons, like a piñata at a birthday party in a mental hospital. The truth is, it’s...

To construct mechanically the brain of a somniferous tale, it is not enough to dissect nonsense & mightily stupefy the reader’s intelligence with renowned doses, so as to paralyze his faculties for the rest of...

Surviving a stupor of madness,drunk silence ‘have we not fingered the foulest wounds and left them unhealed ?

I avoided writers very carefully because they can perpetuate trouble as no one else can.

Live, Love and be grateful you are capable of it.

Dear Aspiring Writer, you are not ready. Stop. Put that finished story away and start another one. In a month, go back and look at the first story. RE-EDIT it. Then send it to a...

Your only responsibility as a writer is to be true to the story that has chosen you as its writer.

Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.

Many children’s writers don’t have children of their own.

Hester Lipp had written Where the Sidewalk Starts, an inexplicably acclaimed book of memoir, recounting — in severe language and strange, striking imagery — Lipp’s childhood and adolescence on a leafy suburban street in Burlington....

and everyone wants to read the poem we’re afraid to write.

It takes great courage to write great books. Find your courage and find your voice.

I love the writers of my thousand books. It pleases me to think how astonished old Homer, whoever he was, would be to find his epics on the shelf of such an unimaginable being as...

The writer’s job is to write with rigor, with commitment, to defend what they believe with all the talent they have. I think that’s part of the moral obligation of a writer, which cannot be...

After reading Edgar Allan Poe. Something the critics have not noticed: a new literary world pointing to the literature of the 20th Century. Scientific miracles, fables on the pattern A+ B, a clear-sighted, sickly literature....

The best life for a writer is the life which helps him write the best books he can.

She wrote about herself through the lens of her father.”The really good novelists, Laura thought, put their fathers, and maybe their mothers too, deeper into the stories. Which, she suddenly thought, might redeem Melville just...

…if you always move in certainty, your writing will be flat – creativity is a rugged terrain…

Whores and writers, Mahound. We are the people you can’t forgive.

America takes her writers too seriously.

Every exceptional writer holds a Master of Arts in Daydreaming.

I beg your pardon, sir, said the Frenchman. I am not a coloniser.Well, let’s talk Algeria then. Let’s talk about your culture and your celebrated writers.

NEWSPAPER: What great paper is the Earth; what a typeface is the Day; what ink is the Night! – Everyone prints, everyone reads; no one understands.

People, fearing their own extinction, are willing to accept and perpetuate hand-me-down answers to the meaning of life and death; and, fearing a weakening of the tribal structures that sustain them, reinforce with their tales...

It is only the promise of death that makes life worth living.

We can learn so much looking outside our core field of expertise.

I am forever an advocate of books, both the reading of them and the writing. There is something sacred to me in that community. Because writing–and reading–is a solitary business. And it’s good to know...

Sensitive people care when the world doesn’t because we understand waiting to be rescued and no one shows up. We have rescued ourselves, so many times that we have become self taught in the art...