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...

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.

It is so small secret that many writers are also alcoholics, drug addicts, sexual deviants, or habitual wearers of blue jeans (in some cases all of the above).

When you have a foreign invasion – in this case by the Indonesian army – writers, intellectuals, newspapers and magazines are the first targets of repression.

There are two kinds of writers; those that make you think and those that make you wonder.

Yes, its hard to write. But its harder not to.

Film and novel characters are often stereotyped, but racial stereotyping in many novels or films creates & encourages labelling, discrimination & racism. ~Angelica Hopes

Didn’t he know that heterosexuals needed to breed so homosexuals could even exist?

you’ll hear oaken solidity, not sawdust and glue.

He offered her power, money, status…a giant prison, all in exchange for only…her soul.

Be what you are, all that you are. Wear yourself proudly. It will require that you draw a line, but that line in the sand is your courage.

My stories are my children. Some are sweet infants that I coddle and care for. Others are old enough now, they need to damn well get a job!

That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them

in the mood” to write. No writer on Earth is in the mood to write everyday, but the good ones do it anyway. They fight through their fatigue, their stress, their doubt, and they write....

New York was packed with writers, real writers, because there were magazines, real magazines, loads of them. This was back when the Internet was still some exotic pet kept in the corner of the publishing...

Books and drafts mean something quite different for different thinkers. One collects in a book the lights he was able to steal and carry home swiftly out of the rays of some insight that suddenly...

Writer’s block is caused by forcing your will on the Divine.

Write a page a day and you’ll have a complete novel in year.

One day, I shall explode like an artillery shell and all my bits will be found on the writing table.

A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.

Then, as now, archaelogists and writers ventured where others feared to tread.

There’s no such thing as ‘no market’. Some books are just niche orientated that’s all.

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

I have one word to say upon the subject of profound writers, who are grown very numerous of late; and I know very well the judicious world is resolved to list me in that number....

I always wanted to be a writer, and I always wrote something – stories, poetry, articles, newsletters, letters. Most writers can’t help themselves! It’s a compulsion.

…nuomstunder have ligesaa mange Skribentere, som Fluer udi September maaned.

Nothing leaves a scar upon an Authors heart more than a book they’ve written with purpose going unread.

Life … is a bit like reading. … If all your responses to a book have already been duplicated and expanded upon by a professional critic, then what point is there to your reading? Only...

…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.