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....

Most writers deserve the reputation posterity has bestowed upon them: You can’t for long conceal the toxic spots on your character—Philip Larkin is Exhibit A—nor can you conceal your dignity, your humanism, your regard for...

sometimes i wake upin the middleof the nightand findpoetry splatteredall over my bed.

To my fellow writers’ I say, ‘Write. Build an imaginary world like nobody’s watching.

Writers have a well-deserved reputation for being eccentric. Everything you’ve heard is true.

I, sole heir to the Munodi line and memory, am childless. A friend who knows such things has told me that this explains my compulsion to capture what I can with black ink on white...

This much is true: When you are about to effect the lives of hundreds of people, Satan will do everything he can to prevent it from happening. Often pride and anger are his best assassins.

I read not so long ago about the construction of a large telescope in Chile’s Atacama Desert, where rainfall can average a millimetre a year and the air is fifty times as dry as the...

Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious. When you’re conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring about the truth, you have the ability to throw the lights on for...

Grammar, you’re the pickiest noun I know.

Naturally I feel no shame in writing these things because of the time which separates the moment when they are written–when only I can see them–from the moment when they will be read by other...

Good horror offers a sense of an upended, lawless world and that’s appealing to anyone who grew up feeling like an outsider.

Trust the tale, not the teller.

I don’t want to write soft, easy fiction; I want to write fiction that challenges.

[I]t is the writer’s duty to write fiction which promotes virtue, the good, the beautiful, and above all, the true. … It is the writer’s duty to hate injustice, to defy the powerful, and to...

Occupation: WriterOccupational Hazard: Carpel tunnelSolution: Wrist guards to bed or my hands do all the sleeping Perspective: I’ve decided my wrist guards have turned me into a Ninja Superhero that hides in the shadows

New York is perfect. Just the way it is. In all its imperfection.

A village explainer. Excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not.”(on Ezra Pound)

Do we have good writers, producers and actors in the U.K.? Yes we do.

When you start searching for ‘pure elements’ in literature you will find that literature has been created by the following classes of persons: Inventors. Men who found a new process, or whose extant work gives...

All writers are insane!

I often said that writers are of two types.There is the architect, which is one type. The architect, as if designing a building, lays out the entire novel at a time. He knows how many...

[A] writer’s most powerful weapon, his true strength, was his intuition, and regardless of whether he had any talent, if the critics combined to discredit an author’s nose for things, he would be reduced to...

The artist must manage to make posterity believe that he never existed.

A writer’s promise is like a tiger’s smile

The characters within a book were, from a certain point of view, identical on some fundamental level ‒ there weren’t any images of them, no physical tangibility whatsoever. They were pictures in the reader’s head,...

According to my mother, I was a fiction writer before I’d written any ficton, by wich she meant not only that I invented things, or made things up, but that I prefered this kind of...

#Writers, #artists , and #poets don’t get the respect they deserve until they are either dead, or they cut off an ear Mozaiah T.

Writers are like tricksters. Their words lure us to embark on journeys and unlock our emotions.

A witer’s mind is NEVER silent. It is always conducting the next symphony of words.

I’m not interested in the reviews by critics over the age of 15.

If writers only dared to dare, a Suetonius or a Tacitus of the Novel could exist, for the Novel is essentially the history of manners, turned into a story and a play, as is History...

The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature: only then can he see clearly.

No deal. I want a novel. September sounds good.

Always write exactly what you’re feeling at the exact moment when writing something like poetry or an emotional novel. Put yourself, pour all emotions into your work…make yourself cry, feel joy if you are writing...

Never be afraid to write what you believe. If the message speaks the truth, others will fear your words for you.

Writers possess magic. It’s in their words. They compose phrases as powerful as incantations, creating illusions in the minds of readers. These spells make eyes envision things that aren’t real; they make hearts feel things...

The lot of the brideto be wed before beddesired until rotten.The lot of the authorto be read before bedadmired then forgotten.

There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors.

The best tool in a writer’s arsenal is a reader’s imagination.

So to the wretched writer I should like to say that there’s one body only whose request for your caresses is not vulgar, is not unchaste, untoward, or impolite: the body of your work itself;...

to be a poet meansto live with a permanent wound forever susceptibleto either the shade of the skyor someone’s eyes.

All writers are insecure, the male ones especially. It’s well known. Why else would they spend so much time on make-believe? They’re only happy in their imaginary worlds, because that’s where they’re in charge –...

Writers need each other.

They like it here. There’s a poet, a couple of novelists, an opera librettist, an essay writer . . . . They don’t usually make much trouble.

Well, you know when people are no good at anything else they become writers.

Nowadays, the Internet decides if you’re good, not the big man in the big office. No matter how important that man thinks he is, everyone else knows that he’s not important anymore, and the Internet...