…a writer without authority? Impossible. as Kenneth Burke says, creation implies authority in the sense of originator….

Does rejection ever get any easier? Only if we decide not to invest emotion in the dismissal…

When the vision fills your brain and passion hits your gut, the need to write it down cannot be stifled. (Marti Melville)

The hours spent forming a written work can make one obsessive, distracted, compulsive, and neurotic even, especially when it comes to those rare, precious occasions of streaming pure inspiration. To have a muse moment interrupted...

Sometimes you have to go a little crazy before you can find sanity. I think I’m close.

Lear, Macbeth. Mercutio – they live on their own as it were. The newspapers are full of them, if we were only the Shakespeares to see it. Have you ever been in a Police Court?...

A writer is simply one who writes words, Even if just 1 person reads it your work, or a 100, or 1million or 100,000 You are a writer.

How….will I ever truly depict you?You’re perfect, my writing isn’t.

She looked at the empty page, which remained blank, apart from the small wet dots from her tears, for hours. Her mind was a turmoil of sadness, rage, fear and all those emotions that gave...

Writing the same kind of material is no guarantee you’ll be working from the same ethos so that writers from different fields are just as likely to have an understanding of each other’s work as...

As a young child I wanted to be a writer because writers were rich and famous. They lounged around Singapore and Rangoon smoking opium in a yellow pongee silk suit. They sniffed cocaine in Mayfair...

Writing isn’t necessarily a gift it is a passion. You can write a one page masterpiece to 99 pages of crap. What keeps you coming back is that Zen moment when you enlightened your own...

People can think only in images. If you want to be a philosopher, write novels.

Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.

How I work is I work from of very character-driven place. And I trust the writers.

If I write as well as I golf, I’m in trouble!

When you write a manuscript, it feels like being in a relationship with someone. You’ll hate it, get bored with it, be pissed of, like you just want to break up. But, just like any...

Stories have the ability to take us inside all kinds of life.

If the voice inside your head doesn’t sound anything like you, you might be a writer.

What is it about us lady authors and our fascination for the exclamation mark?

Waandishi ni wadadisi.

The defining lines of reality have always been a bit blurred for me.

Souls are more important than stories, yes. But stories are a window to the soul. Without stories, the soul suffocates.

He had a book to finish. Ten-thousand words. The other ninety thousand had been difficult. This last tenth seemed impossible. His plot had become derailed. He was unable to see his way through the smoke...

She had words in her heart which she released thru her fingertips.

Writers aren’t exactly people…. They’re a whole bunch of people trying to be one person.

A lot of things happen in our lives without any apparent justification. but whatever happens to us,takes us one step ahead in the path of self realisation.the truth is we all are travellers in the...

I get interested in writers who are enigmatic.

The greatest moments of creativity come in absolute solitude, when one’s mind is free from distraction and able to probe the depths of the impossible.

As long as you write, you’ll never be lonely.

…if he can write a book at all, a writer cannot do it by peeping over his shoulder at somebody else, any more than a woman can have a baby by watching some other woman...

There are so many talented young writers named Jonathan, with whom by comparison I suffer terribly.

No matter what level of success, there is no such thing as a secure writer

When I got up this morning the sea was full of sun pennies – and now it all seems to be covered in lemon scrim. Writers ought to live far inland or next to the...

GIVING – Applied tithing is so rewarding. When you give away your time, talent, and treasures you create a huge shift in your prosperity consciousness. So start where you are as you reach for where...

The pen, a double-edged mystery: cuts the writer, heals the reader.

Before publishers’ blurbs were invented, authors had to make their reputations by writing.

We all have a vision, a dream to hope for. Some chase it and some wish upon it.. Who do you think, wins? the chaser finds ways to create it, regardless of the fight, the...

Maybe you didn’t need to know anything special to write a work of fiction. Maybe you didn’t need to delve into some kind of life question you knew you’d lived. Perhaps your subconscious would do...

Readers don’t work for writers. They work for themselves.

My ideas are a shapeless mass that my writing molds into beauty.

As a writer, I like the list of “things to strive for” that Richard Yates kept above his typewriter:genuine claritygenuine feelingthe right wordthe exact English sentencethe eloquent detailthe rigorous dramatization of story

Do Engineers have stories, Jack?” he asked. “What?” Jack said, without moving.”Stories. Myths. Things to keep the boredom out on a long shift.””I think they play cards, mostly,” Jack answered. It was a lie, but...

Crippled and crazy, we hobble toward the finish line, pen in hand.

I wonder if that’s the perennial story of writers: you find the true light, you lose the true light, you find it again. And maybe again.

I’ve met talespinners before, Jake, and they’re all cut more or less from the same cloth. They tell tales because they’re afraid of life.

Meeting writers is always so disappointing. I got over wanting to meet live writers quite a long time ago. There is this terrific book that has changed your life, and then you meet the author,...

Writers should provoke disagreement.

Writing is a profession that has no real career structure and your best advice when you hit a difficulty is probably going to come from another writer one or two rungs on the career ladder...

Forever encased in the amber of a writer’s prose.