As long you are still living, you can achieve far more than you could ever imagined

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.

By writing, we partake in something greater than ourselves. Pick up pen and paper or take a seat at your computer today and create something of beauty.

One does not travel, any more than one falls in love, to collect material. It is simply part of one’s life…

When Stephen King elaborated on his inspirations for his novel “Carrie” he draws from a time when he was a young man, and describes his impression when he came upon a statue of Christ on...

My theory is you shouldn’t apologize for believing in an idea-channeling muse. You should just be sure to feed her.

The books we read in childhood don’t exist anymore; they sailed off with the wind, leaving bare skeletons behind. Whoever still has in him the memory and marrow of childhood should rewrite these books as...

…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...

Let there be a Page, and many a Page,” and there was a Book. And we saw that the Book was good.

Basically, writers write because they have something to say…Everyone has a story in them, writers merely decide to share it with the world…

You flourish one hushed breath at a time. Imagine all you can build word by single word.

And because the world is too big and time is too short and you only have one life to live, read!

Writing heals my heart like no pill ever could.

Words writers choose are a glimmering reflection into our souls.

You connect yourself to the viewer by by sharing something that is inside of you that connects with something inside of him. All you have as your guide is that you know what moves you.

The best ending ever, for a science fiction book – or any novel, now that I think about it – was in Rendezvous With Rama. You know that you’re at the end of the book...

Each time I write, I reaffirm my soul.

Trawling through a dusty attic of my addled memory I found that I’d been rather in a lot of daft and amusing situations, so I set about writing them down. The only problem being that...

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...

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...

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

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...

Replace your old books with the book you’ve always wanted to write.

Writers write because they’re writers. Because their imaginations boil up inside of them, waiting to overflow into the written word. Ordinary people have little capacity for unyielding imagination, whereas the natural-born writer can do little...

Every book I’ve read appears in my writing.

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

..here’s the editor’s prescription, writer: 1000 words daily until next checkup.

Some of the best characters are the most flawed characters.

Through the act of writing, a writer learns more about himself than he could ever imagine.

Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.

Every word I write is another stroke that takes me to the shore of a completed book.

Daily life is always extraordinary when rendered precisely. We can unlock our lives with a pencil tip.

Writing is the neck muscle allowing us to see the important stuff in our periphery.

A good writer reveals beauty in the mundane and truth in tragedy. Words are a tool; a currency of the mind, and the best writers weave passages into our hearts that our bones remember.

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

An idea for a story can be anything. The sky is not the limit, the limit is beyond it.

Every moment offers a great opportunity to write.

Write and your experiences with others. Never underestimate your writings. It can bring hope and inspiration to many people.

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

Be ruthless about protecting writing days, i.e., do not cave in to endless requests to have “essential” and “long overdue” meetings on those days. The funny thing is that, although writing has been my actual...

The beginning of every writing session is like setting down a road unknown.

Keep traveling, even if you don’t know where the road will end.

Folding the laundry, completing another project at work, or watching television for the next hour doesn’t build your writing muscles. It only leaves them flabby.

I could write about how I feel when I sing, write and create something from heartbreak, sorrow, sadness or just simply nothingness. How nothingness can become the most beautiful, unexplainable feeling that makes you forget...

A writer will always be a writer. It’s not a choice, it’s a destiny.

Always carry with you a pen and a notebook or a journal to write the thoughts that flashes in a moments.