Every word I write is like a drop of my blood. If it’s flowed passionately and long, I need time to recover from the emotion spent before I began a new story. My characters are...

Writing romantic fiction is the second chance that loved ones denied us.

Writers are engineers of human souls.

I hoped at first to find a rather more direct comprehension of life in one or two novelists and poets; but if they really had such a comprehension, it must be confessed they did not...

There is a deeper, more profound reason for this craving for acceptance and glory. Put simply, it’s because all writers are fat and/or ugly. And generally socially inept. Me being the notable exception, of course....

While in England write or get wrought rotten rusted.

Hey Revision. You can be a pain but you do make Book better.

It’s a great paradox and a great injustice that writers write because we fear death and want to leave something indestructable in our wake, and at the same time, are drawn to things that kill:...

Yet while Vidal writes best about power, politics, and history White’s strengths are sex, art and – sometimes – love. Each tends to stumble when he enters the other’s domain.

There are books that change our perspectives and books that change our personalities.

I think there are writers who take a quieter approach to their work — one that is just about respectfully showing up for your vocation day after day, steadily doing your best, and letting go...

The swing between confronting the dangerous or brutal and the beautiful or the kind is one of the elements of being human that I have battled with all my life. That mixture of love and...

Some writers may never create a work. Their purpose is to help others create their first word.

If you had told me, though, when I was twenty-four that I would write about Skokie, Illinois, where I grew up, I would have said, ‘You’re out of your mind. Why would I have Skokie...

Another drink, another sentence, and the writing continues on. . . .

A women’s heart beat is very rapid; it jumps from love to hate, in seconds when in silence there is surely madness.

Writers turn dreams into print.

An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.

I became a writer so that the voices inside my head would become an acceptable occurrence.

His fame as an artist requires very tender care. Look what a mask of diplomacy is painstakingly formed by the whole of that fine profile; he is as wily as a cardinal. He has scented...

My brain is on fire!” to try to help these people understand that this is a headache that needs attention! That’s a metaphor, right? And you use it so that you can be understood. Now...

I don’t need to write a memoir of my life. All you need to do is read one of my books. I’m there.

I am a writer, I’m supposed to be intense and emotional,

You may think that you don’t want to read about the problems of being brought up Mennonite, but the great thing about books is that you’ll read anything a good writer wants you to read.

In such troubled times, we must remember the value writers have—the value of inventing new language to keep pace with the rapidly transforming world around us.

Olaotan! Olaotan!! Olaotan!!! It’s half past time to write”, I only have three things at my disposal: A pen, A piece of paper, and a crowded mind.

Opera artistului e cochilia sa,dar pe mine ma intereseaza animalul are-a secretat-o din sangele si din carnea lui.

The Booker thing was a catalyst for me in a bizarre way. It’s perceived as an accolade to be published as a ‘literary’ writer, but, actually, it’s pompous and it’s fake. Literary fiction is often...

If the writer were more like a reader, he’d be a reader, not a writer. It’s as uncomplicated as that.

With the young writers now it’s F and C all day long, which he, personally, finds boring.

Don’t let yourself be amazed by the imagination of a writer and his words, writers are almost all the time in a love-hate relationship with words.

…writing allows us to reposition ourselves so we can see what is otherwise in our mental blind spots or those things about oneself and the world that we neither can see nor understand from the...

I have a great book. It’s called Stantasyland. Except I don’t have the money to buy a million copies to put it on the bestsellers list.

Inside of all of us there is the need and the desire to be heard, to have our innermost thoughts, feelings and desires expressed for others to hear, to see and to understand. We all...

I was a woman and did not yet think of myself as a writer. I was a mapmaker.

I think it’s incomparably sweet when someone writes something for you.. even if it doesn’t rhyme or even if it isn’t very amorous.. even two lines of hatred written for you acknowledges the fact that...

Each big idea like that is an operating system upgrade,” she says, smiling. Comfortable territory. “Writers are responsible for some of it. They say Shakespeare invented the internal monologue.”Oh, I am very familiar with the...

Be Shameless. Experiment. This is the only way to identify your true passion.

It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? For the moment passes, it is forgotten; the...

If God didn’t want me to cross boundaries, then he wouldn’t have made me a writer.

Writers are compulsive liars desperately trying to tell themselves the truth.

I am here to listen to the knowledge of my soul and to communicate it through the written word.

Me to Comma: I will never get use to you wanting to butt your way into my sentences — even if you’re right.

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

Penicillin was as liberating for gay sex as the pill had been for straight sex.

Many writers, especially male ones, have told us that it is the decease of the father which opens the prospect of one’s own end, and affords an unobstructed view of the undug but awaiting grave...

Color me….BRILLIANT.

When I am alone, I drink my tea with pinkie raised, like a kid playing “tea party.” At times, a fancy British accent is involved. Dahling!

You know you are a writer when characters inside your brain keep demanding, ‘This is my story! Now tell it or I will never leave you alone!

The Llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat, with an indolent expression and an undulating throat; like an unsuccessful literary man.