…it’s not the stories – it’s the pain and the joy and the people who stay with you long after the stories are told …

There are more writers who read than readers who write.

But the artist appeals to that part of our being which is not dependent on wisdom; to that in us which is a gift and not an acquisition— and, therefore, more permanently enduring. He speaks...

This is the nature of love.” Vashet said. “To attempt to describe it will drive a woman mad. This is what keeps poets scribbling endlessly away. If one could pin it to paper all complete,...

My job as a poet, is not to succumb to despair but to find in words, an antidote for the emptiness of existence.

Without the dreamers who write science fiction and other imaginary material we’d still be sitting in caves … if we weren’t already extinct.

A story is a part of the writer’s soul. Told to the world.

Writing is a lonely job. Having someone who believes in you makes a lot if difference. They don’t have to makes speeches. Just believing is usually enough.

Writers are always alone, even in a room bursting with noises of the familiar.

I know a lot of writers, and everyone works differently, but this is something that we truly have in common across all genres – the fiction has to be real inside your head.

Don’t ever trust anyone who’s writing a book. They make up lies for a living.

You say you’re a writer but you’re depressed. Not an excuse; write from there. Write some depressing sh*t. Believe me. You will have plenty of readers who can relate. Remember writers write.

All I really want to do today is go to the book store, drink coffee and read.

The most difficult thing about writing; is writing the first line.

My father once admonished me to master the laws that govern fine writing until I could weave my words into worlds. If ever I accomplish that feat, I will sign my name to the tale.

There was nothing glorious about the life of a drinker or the life of a writer.

If we loved Steve Aylett, really loved him in the way that he deserves, a selfless love that genuinely wanted nothing save his happiness and comfort, we’d lobotomise him.

I wasn’t born to cook or clean,but to read and write,if you don’t like me the way I am,then go fly a kite.

It’s often said that writers sometimes need to go around the block a few times to get where they’re going.

Everybody is born with a little bit of writer in them. We all come with the desire to work hard to see our creations come to life on the page. But it is those who...

Not everyone will like what you write but there’s a certain group who’ll love what you write. Keep WRITING for them.

The night before a deadline, I usually am in desperate need of a back rub. And new wrists. And candy. And little mice to secretly finish the job while I am sleeping.

Days become weeks. Weeks become months. Month become years. And years become silence.

Imagination is the parallel universe of a writer. If he is not responding to you in this world, he is probably responding to someone in the imaginary world.

[I]f the writer does his job right, what he basically does is remind the reader of how smart the reader is.

Act as if you’re a writer. Sit down and begin. Act as if you might just create something beautiful, and by beautiful I mean something authentic and universal. Don’t wait for anybody to tell you...

Entertain, yes. That goes without saying. But a good writer does that automatically, it’s built into the machine. Telling a thumpingly good, mesmerizing story is what one does without question. But beyond that, any writer...

The approach to digital culture I abhor would indeed turn all the world’s books into one book, just as Kevin (Kelly) suggested. It might start to happen in the next decade or so. Google and...

Writers perform an extremely important role: they make others dream, those who are unable to dream for themselves. And everyone needs to dream. Could there be any more important job in life than that?

It seems to me, alas, that if you can so thoroughly dissect your children who are still to be born, you don’t get horny enough to actually to father them.

Why hast Thou forsaken me? What have I done that I should suffer so?” And then, at the very darkest moment, suddenly, the veil is torn from their eyes! Truth, with her flaming torch, stands...

A fellow who once manipulated the money in your wallet but now curses the fellow who does.

That’s okay,” I said. “We’re writers. We make things up.

The first inkling of this notion had come to him the Christmas before, at his daughter’s place in Vermont. On Christmas Eve, as indifferent evening took hold in the blue squares of the windows, he...

The ancient commission of the writer has not changed. He is charged with exposing our many grievous faults and failures, with dredging up to the light our dark and dangerous dreams for the purpose of...

Sooner or later every writer evolves his own definition of a story.Mine is: A reflection of life plus beginning and end (life seems not to have either) and a meaning.

Some writers aren’t writers, they are mere escapees’ and refugees’ on an exile from the jungle of thoughts.

In my experience, writers tend to be really good at the inside of their own heads and imaginary people, and a lot less good at the stuff going on outside, which means that quite often...

A kind of losing loadum is their game,Where the worst writer has the greatest fame.

Writers will happen in the best of families.

Aren’t we all waiting to be read by someone, praying that they’ll tell us that we make sense?

Writers of literature, if they are real writers, know that their readers are confused about reality and the emotions derived from that reality and are looking for clarity concerning the life that they are engulfed...

Writers Are Insane. For months we are lone wolves locked in our caves. Then overnight we become publicity hounds. It’s a schizophrenic business.

Think of Shakespeare and Melville and you think of thunder, lightning, wind. They all knew the joy of creating in large or small forms, on unlimited or restricted canvases. These are the children of the...

Zafar argues that the greatest influence on a writer may be on her psychic dispositions as a writer. Reading Philip Roth, writes Zafar, might clear the way of inhibitions that held you back from writing...

Make foes of bowmen if you must,Never of penmen.

my poetry is merely a body.you are the soul in my words.

we write every day, we fight every day, we think and scheme and dream a little dream every day. manuscripts pile up in the kitchen sink, run-on sentences dangle around our necks. we plant purple...

Writers are, as a profession, nothing if not eccentric.

A 21st century poet is a woman who can speak her mind and stand upright like a mountain with her convictions, but can adapt like water in an ever changing season without losing her genuine...