Me to characters: talk to me people.

All authors go to heaven; we have paid our dues on earth by choosing to the hellish career of writing

Cunningham himself said in an interview in Poz that he couldn’t help noticing that as soon as he wrote a novel without a blowjob, they gave him the Pulitzer Prize.

The Bible should be taught in schools – in English, with all the other fiction.

Some writers, no matter how good they are, can’t speak to us. Something about the way they see the world, I think, string sentences together, alienates us as surely as the ramblings of a madman...

The writing in itself is transformative for me.

Life baffles me most days. Maybe that’s why I write. To try and make sense of it all.

She meant to write: “Is Christy here yet?”Auto Correct turned it into: “Is crazy here yet?”For once Auto Correct got it right.

When the last autumn of Dickens’s life was over, he continued to work through his final winter and into spring. This is how all of us writers give away the days and years and decades...

You can save many lives but the most courageous act is to save your authentic-self.

I didn’t go to graduate school, where all the important writers seemed to be getting their start. I didn’t pursue getting published in literary magazines. I didn’t even send out countless pitch letters and manuscripts...

Writers strive for the impossible: perfection. Even the universe is flawed.

An author really ought to have nothing but flowers in the room where he works.

As most real writers do, he wrote because he had something to say, not because of any specific ambition to be a writer.

We are doing the most important possible work in the world when we open the door and reveal our creative nature. It is the work of the Universe itself.

When I told my teachers I wanted to be a writer, alot of them encouraged me to lower my expectations and to be more realistic. So I rode away on my magical, winged horse, spraying...

Writing well means never having to say, “I guess you had to be there.

The pen to a writer is like a cigarette to a smoker; they need it to take the edge off.

The writer doesn’t write for the reader. He doesn’t write for himself, either. He writes to serve…something. Somethingness. The somethingness that is sheltered by the wings of nothingness — those exquisite, enveloping, protecting wings.

Authors are but the instrument to be played. The art is inside them, but many people help create it.

If art is not to be life-enhancing, what is it to be? Half the world is feminine–why is there resentment at a female-oriented art? Nobody asks The Tale of Genji to be masculine! Women certainly...

The highest duty of the writer is to remain true to himself and let the chips fall where they may. In serving his vision of the truth the artist best serves his nation.

What is the easiest, the most comfortable thing for a writer to do? To congratulate the society in which he lives: to admire its biceps, applaud its progress, tease it endearingly about its follies.

Writers are much better behaved nowadays, for a couple of reasons. Once upon a time nobody was thinking of a career, unless you lived in New York, so there wasn’t as much pressure to present...

to paraphrase science writer John D. Barrow … we know they are impossible and yet we can imagine them anyway. Our brains, it turns out, are not prisoners of the world we live in; we...

Each time I write, I reaffirm my soul.

I am an Author a person that plays with words that dance in the minds of others

Passionate attraction to someone of the opposite sex will make a hero or a fool of a novelist each time.

Who thought up the dumb idea to arrange the memoir section in the bookstore by subject?

I don’t think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer that is as I say demon-driven and wants to learn and has got to write, he don’t...

The only impeccable writers are those who never wrote.

all the wordsall the poems know my warm, soft spots.

Woman, especially her sexuality, provides the object of endless commentary , description, supposition. But the result of all the telling only deepens the enigma and makes woman’s erotic force something that male storytelling can never...

I write to believe in goodness.

Nuestras dudas son traidoras, porque nos hacen perder aquello que pudimos ganar, por miedo a intentarlo

Don’t panic. If you write, you’ll be a writer.

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.

If insanity is defined as doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results – then success is insanity squared!(2012 SCBWI New Member Conference; Richmond, VA)

The average buyer in bookshop spends 8 seconds on the front cover and 15 seconds on the back cover before deciding whether to purchase the book or not. On average, he does not get past...

great writers are indecent peoplethey live unfairlysaving the best part for paper.good human beings save the worldso that bastards like me can keep creating art,become immortal.if you read this after I am deadit means I...

I thought about how all that mattered, in all entirety, and all I wanted, and all I could see anything being worth anything for, was being a writer.

such a representative life”. And it’s true: the zeitgeist blew through White more easily than it did through most people.

It’s difficult to quantify precisely the effect of books on our lives – but generally speaking, it’s enormous.

How are you supposed to know what to read next? This is the question that keeps us up at night, so at Day One our mission is to feed an audience of literature-hungry, time-constrained readers...

The best way of writing sex scenes is to do the first draft, orgasm, and then start editing. You can be objective post-orgasm.

When a solid first draft of an original tale is complete…you feel as if you could do anything.

Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.

Writers owed their readers a duty of care, of mercy.

If writers write, then rangers range. And I’d like to wake up every morning and be a mother, so I could eat my own clothes.

If you’re going to fall in love with anyone, fall in love with a writer. Allow yourself to become immortalised in words.