When an editor works with an author, she cannot help seeing into the medicine cabinet of his soul. All the terrible emotions, the desire for vindications, the paranoia, and the projection are bottled in there,...

Pen-bereavement is a serious matter.

I’ve probably put my 10,000 hours into writing, but I believe writing well is also greatly influenced by certain intangibles like mood and inspiration.

If you see it in Strunk and White it’s so.

All writers of confessions from Augustine on down, have always remained a little in love with their sins.

Ginsberg was the favourite bohemian poet of straight college boys who wanted to transgress, and of gay college boys who were not yet ready to come out.

People who don’t read fiction are scared of what’s inside their own heads.

Gay life is this object out there that’s waiting to be written about. A lot of people think we’ve exhausted all the themes of gay fiction, but we’ve just barely touched on them.

I hope for what I always hope for as a writer: a critical but kind reader. I think that is what we all hope for.

I do not recommend writing a screenplay in two weeks.

When people have told me that because I am a Catholic, I cannot be an artist, I have had to reply, ruefully, that because I am a Catholic I cannot afford to be less than...

I find myself nursing keen regret at probably not being able to live long enough to explain properly to you what I do not myself pretend to know. But since it has been proved that...

I have witness the stars brighterthan a poet can create a simpleton world. Shall we write ‘until death do us part.

Being goal-oriented instead of self-oriented is crucial. I know so many people who want to be writers. But let me tell you, they really don’t want to be writers. They want to have been writers....

Strive to be beyond what others perceive you to be, by striving beyond the limits of yourself.

Me crié con Lovecraft, Doyle, y Asimov. Fui educado por VíctorHugo, Dumas, y Dickens. Mis mejores amigos fueron Kafka, Poe, yKing. Dostoyevsky y Nietzsche me ayudaron a forjar el carácter.Baudelaire, Sade, y Wilde estimularon mis...

The country with the most writers is ironically probably the country with the least readers—USA. And once my parents die, my entire reading base will disappear.

Blessed are the weird people: poets, misfits, writersmystics, painters, troubadoursfor they teach us to see the world through different eyes.

No book can ever be finished. While working on it we learn just enough to find it immature the moment we turn away from it

Some of the poetic writers who insert passages of realism in their texts have no underlying philosophy to uphold them, and revert to realism.

Not being published would be great. When I say that to other writers they look at me as if I’m totally insane.

Give a hundred writers the same idea and you’ll get a hundred different stories.

Writing barely differs from Talking and Reading. It appoints your hand while they engage your mouth and eyes respectively. The trio need the mind to combine sensible words from a meaningful arrangement of the ‘simple’...

You may be a serious writer if ….10. your hard drive is littered with random notes and story ideas … but not nearly as littered as your head.9. you keep pen and paper next to...

But writers experience the world and themselves in a unique way. We look for meaning. We see it even when we are not paying attention, which is seldom because, as writers, paying attention is what...

The writer has little control over personal temperament, none over historical moment, and is only partly in charge of his or her own aesthetic.

There’s an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine — “Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is like wanting to meet a duck because you like p...

mind-boggling” moments, when I would doubt myself and what I was writing. It has been said that we, ourselves, are our own worst critics.All the hard work had payed off though, and I created a...

By writing, we partake in something greater than ourselves. Pick up pen and paper or take a seat at your computer today and create something of beauty.

Good writers can’t die. Their words live on forever.

I will always know the glory of the beautiful and rare, as they will know security from labour and prayer. As they will hear the laughter of the children they gave life, I will know...

It is the writer’s job to craft a story so compelling that strangers will pay to hear it.

In my profession it isn’t a question of telling good literature from bad. Really good literature is seldom appreciated in its own day. The best authors die poor, the bad ones make money — it’s...

A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.

Poems are invisible flowers on my skin.

We all have our demons, I just happen to exorcise mine by writing them out.

Dance above the surface of the world. Let your thoughts lift you into creativity that is not hampered by opinion.

I write to find strength.I write to become the person that hides inside me.I write to light the way through the darkness for others.I write to be seen and heard.I write to be near those...

You connect yourself to the viewer by by sharing something that is inside of you that connects with something inside of him. All you have as your guide is that you know what moves you.

The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature.

A critic is a legless man who teaches other people to run

When you’re tied to one show, you are very much at the mercy of the writers, so you can suddenly get a script where you have a heart attack and die.

I write romance and passion to savour love twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

Gay liberation did not create gay promiscuity. There was sex before there were marches, politics, or books – it was the best reason for being homosexual, it and love.

Authors, he thought. Even the sane ones are nuts.

Writers do not have the privilege of sleep. There is always a story coming alive in their heads, constantly composing. Whether they choose it or not.

I wish my brain had an off switch. Maybe that way I could get some sleep.

Your writing should be filled with simple complexities and complex simplicities. Because that is life.

We do need to bring to our writing, over and over again, all the abundance we possess. To be able, to be ready, to enter into the minds and hearts of our own people, all...

I didn’t need to be a writer to know that I could. Did you have to become a penis to act like a dick?