Knows everything and at the same time he knows nothing.” [narrator]It was my first inkling that he was a writer. And while I like writers—because if you ask a writer anything you usually get an...

In the name of being social, we learn to ignore our natural instinct.Society keeps dictating do’s and don’ts which we keep obeying day in and day out.

Writers are disguised “sorcerers”. Armed with their mighty pens, they cast spells on their readers using words that could pierce right through the heart and soul. If our writings moved you, made you cry, made...

Imagination is the real magic that exists in this world. Look inwards, to see outwards. And capture it in writing.

Some writers are born. Others learn. I was born a writer but have a lot to learn.

You think you have no ‘talent’? Write anyway. lots of people with ‘talent’ don’t actually act on it. As long as you write, you will learn, you will improve, and you will be better than...

Can we all pause a moment to appreciate the artistry of that sentence? “Sitting casually on the floor, a guard sat…” That’s freaking art right there! Someone nominate this thing for the Hugo Award already!

It’s lovely when writers I like like each other.

Do you write every day?’ ‘Oh, no. Oh, I sort of try. I don’t work very hard, really. Really I’m on vacation. All the time. Or you could say I work all the time, too....

If we are the trees, words are our roots; and we grow as we write

I write to forget the days that broke me into a million nights.

As long as music survives, poetry will never die.

Make no mistake, those who write long books have nothing to say.Of course those who write short books have even less to say.

If she was going to write a novel, she felt defeated before she began, because someone might be coming along to pick it apart, looking for symbols like The Conch or The Whale, which seemed...

Survivors of the red pen can overcome the blank paper…

..here’s the editor’s prescription, writer: 1000 words daily until next checkup.

When my father first took me to Ennis Library I went down among the shelves and felt company, not only the company of writers, but the readers too, because they had lifted and opened and...

Writers are archeologists of themselves.

I did what most writers do at their beginnings: emulated my elders, imitated my peers, thus turning away from any possibility of discovering truths beneath my skin and behind my eye.

Makebelieve is a writer’s best friend.

You will need seed money, so begin saving for your book. Don’t give up. Also, write down the ideas that you have right away so you don’t lose them.

Collaborative workshops and writers’ peer groups hadn’t been invented when I was young. They’re a wonderful invention. They put the writer into a community of people all working at the same art, the kind of...

…at some point you need to stop looking out at others and start looking inward, at yourself, at your own accomplishments, at your own foibles, at your own successes and your own failures. It’s only...

Crime writers, I’ve noticed, can be jumpy. They live in a world where there are murderers on the loose and they haven’t been caught yet!

Heretics are the only [bitter] remedy against the entropy of human thought.(“Literature, Revolution, and Entropy”)

Happy children do not seem to grow up to be writers.

Write, what you feel about. Feel, what you have written about.

We create words, words create wonders.

Writers had a way of redeeming everything that ever happens to them.

I’m trying to give my character voice but he won’t speak.

Writing gives me wings.

Sociologists say a neighbourhood is perceived as gay if anywhere between 15 to 25 percent of the residents are homosexual.

Once I was asked be a seatmate on a trans-Pacific flight….what instruction he should give his fifteen-year-old daughters, who wanted to be a writer. [I said], “Tell your daughter three things.” Tell her to read…Tell...

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right-about-face which turns us...

Each night, I close my eyes and dream. In the morning, I open my eyes again, but the dreaming doesn’t stop.

Give all that you can. No more. No less. Every. Single. Day.

I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book

The best fame is a writer’s fame. It’s enough to get a table at a good restaurant, but not enough to get you interrupted when you eat.

There is never a time or place for love. It happens accidentally. Oops!

It is always as it was between Achilles and Homer: one person has the experience, the sensation, the other describes it. A real writer only gives words to the affects and experiences of others; he...

Writers, even unpublished writers, have a tendency not to notice what’s going on around them when they are the center of attention.

Lindsay [Doran] goes round the table and introduces everyone — making it clear that I am present in the capacity of writer rather than actress, therefore no one has to be too nice to me.

You don’t make art out of good intentions.

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it...

If you write without reading, you will certainly have too many books without readers.

Two kinds of writers. One treats the world as if it were fiction; the other treats fiction as if it were the world.

Det var nästan som att upptäcka en författare man inte läst, fast man stöter i och för sig hela tiden på författare som man inte har läst medan det är mycket sällsynt, åtminstone i vuxen...

The more the words of others impressed him with their factual content, the more he felt he must wait for his own facts before being tempted into words.

Saturday night is perfect for writers because other people have “plans.

People don’t like to talk about alcohol. They don’t like to think about it, except in the most superficial of ways. They don’t like to examine the damage it does and I don’t blame them....