… The Book is more important than your plans for it. You have to go with what works for The Book ~ if your ideas appear hollow or forced when they are put on paper,...

People who want to write books do so because they feel it to be the easiest thing they can do. They can read and write, they can afford any of the instruments of book writing...

My mother, who is a pianist and a fine artist, purchased a piano for me. Twice. This was back when I was a small girl. Pianos, of course, came complete with the quintessential piano teacher...

Every word I write is a seed that I may nurture into a small, beautiful poem or a tall, soaring tree.

Editors can be stupid at times. They just ignore that author’s intention. I always try to read unabridged editions, so much is lost with cut versions of classic literature, even movies don’t make sense when...

The writer’s silent mind is a period of intermission before orchestrating a symphony of words.

The only difference between writers and people who don’t write is that writers aren’t afraid to display their demons.

…you are a writer the moment you start writing, not when you’ve sold your first book.

A pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.

Where do storytellers find the wisdom to discover their own stories? From no place more mysterious than their own hearts.

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

There is always, always, always something to write about.

It is imperative that your work habits from school do not make their way into your book writing process. I am talking about the practice of typing the last words just before the deadline every...

Being blind is the worst possible thing and asking me to read and write no more is torture.

Someone asked me, ‘How do you write a book?’ I said, ‘I live with a pen in one hand.

Every book I’ve read appears in my writing.

I think memory is the most important asset of human beings. It’s a kind of fuel; it burns and it warms you. My memory is like a chest: There are so many drawers in that...

Perhaps the hardest thing in all literature— at least I have found it so: by no voluntary effort can I accomplish it: I have to take it as it comes— is to write anything original....

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

There is an underlying rhythm to all text. Sentences crashing fall like the waves of the sea, and work unconsciously on the reader. Punctuation is the music of language. As a conductor can influence the...

MFA in a Box is designed to help you to find the courage to put truth into words and to understand that writing is a life-and-death endeavor — but that nothing about a life-and-death endeavor...

It’s the witching hour once more-When the Muse comes out to play.He calls me through that magic door-Where galaxies of worlds await!

If you are serious, and you want to make a living as an author, then you need to hustle. Period. If you can’t make that quality, then you need to concentrate on your craft and...

Books are like rivers, meandering this way and that, but taking us on a steady, flowing course to somewhere different.

Never try to keep it professional, keep it smutty, write with bodily fluids on sandpaper, and damn the men with clipboards in white suits, the literary bean-counters, the prose police.

Life is a book. There are many pages to be written.

Writing a story about a place calls that world into existence. Sometimes, as the author, you accompany it for a while. But even as you write, the characters have minds of their own.

I’m an author. We don’t want to lead. We don’t need to follow. We stay home and make stuff up and write it down and send it out into the world, and get inside people’s...

It’s better to be remembered for what you said, not what you earned.

Time to turn some phrases and place them on these here pages.

The hard part is putting one word after another.

I hope I don’t write TOO many books! When I look at authors who have written too many books, I wonder to myself “When did they live?” I certainly want to write BECAUSE I live!...

I can’t wait to get back to writing today so I can see what happens next Kim Cormack

We all have different voices for different occasions. I just turn those voices into characters and put them in my books.

Writers leave a trail of magic everywhere they go.

I think the reason why I don’t read so much, is because as I have observed, whole books all boil down to a drop of essence. You can read a book full of ten thousand...

I would actually write books totally full of nothing BUT kissing scenes, but apparently people like books to have, like, “plots” or whatever.

To prepare to write, I don’t surround myself with books. I surround myself with feelings.

Every writer or wanna-be writer has ideas for books. The problem isn’t finding an idea, it’s choosing one

J.R.R.Tolkien has confessed that about a third of the way through The Fellowship of the Ring, some ruffian named Strider confronted the hobbits in an inn, and Tolkien was in despair. He didn’t know who...

When we sit down to write, we psychically enter a sanctuary. This safe haven is our own personal space where we can say whatever is on our mind, where we can talk about what matters...

A writer who’s afraid to express their opinions is not a writer – they’re just a person with a pen.

Style and voice are different. Style is standard conventions of writing. Voice is the distinct way an individual puts words together. All good writers have a near-uniform understanding of style but a voice all their...

Whenever people ask me, “How are your books doing?” or, “How is your book doing?” I just say, “It’s okay.” I mean, what am I supposed to say? I’m a writer; that means I write...

Your first written sentence is the foundation of all of your dreams.