I already knew the next story that I was going to rewrite from the beginning. Mine.

Pay attention, and use your imagination.

Inspiration comes from your writing. Thoughts meander subliminally through our subconscious, at night when we sleep the brain is working. In the act of writing, phrases come out and you think: wow, did I write...

In The End The Words Are The All And The Nothing.

Drama copies life in there being a sense of waiting, of a promise never fulfilled.

May the ink of your thoughts never dry.

Writing is like a religion to those who don’t practise, an act of faith for those who do.

May my mind be clear and my heart pure.

Lasciva est nobis pagina, vita proba.

Don’t say you’re a writer if you’re not writing. Even if you’re writing, don’t call yourself a writer. Say instead, ‘I write.’ It’s the verb that’s important, not the noun.

Receiving very little or no feedback from my writing I really don’t know if people like it or if they are actually reading any of my work for that matter. Still I will continue to...

Be Visionary …

Those who write are writers. Those who wait are waiters.

I mean, what can you say about how you write your books? What I mean is, first you’ve got to think of something, and then when you’ve thought of it you’ve got to force yourself...

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

I write because that is what I am supposed to do.

in the beginning was the Word,” John writes, and perhaps part of what that means is that until there is a word, there can be no beginning. Frederick Buechner, A Room Called Remember, in an...

Writing is like a blind man building a stone house with a limited amount of space and time. Brick after brick, row after row, feeling his way round and round. Turning stones into walls, rooms...

Everything from the humble woodlouse to specks of dust moving through a ray of sunlight. Each tells a story.

And maybe it was fair; if a book was any good, it was a slap in the face to someone.

Beware of being only a writer.

The act of giving voice to this spiritual suffering is, in my view, the sacred duty of the writer.

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

A writer needs to ingest love to be passionate. Passion is a metabolite of love, and good writing is an active metabolite of passion.

Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things, you’re doomed.

Discovering Distilled Creativity”Amazing how sitting down to listen with no distractions – no tv, no devices, no radio – can enhance your life; the sigh of the wind the only ambient noise. Then, in that...

I don’t think playing it safe constitutes a retreat, necessarily. In other words, I don’t think if, by playing safe he means we are not going to delve into controversy, then if that’s what he...

The self-addressed stamped envelope. The representation of everything that was wrong with the old publishing industry.

The most important trait of a writer is an authentic voice. Writers have to have faith in their own voice, and their own way of doing things. Originality is the gem that every writer possesses....

Always being myself and my salve, which is life. I’m not lonely, if that’s what it seems like. Always writing things down.

So they spread the paintings on the lawn, and the boy explained each of them. “This is the school, and this is the playground, and these are my friends.” He stared at the paintings for...

New York is perfect. Just the way it is. In all its imperfection.

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Love the work: the grind, the dreaming, the distracted not-sleep, all of it. It’s the one thing in the job that will always be there, and the real pleasure in the profession. Everything else is...

As writers we intend to make a difference, to alter people’s lives for the greater good. . .this is why we write, to have an impact on society, to put a personal stamp on history....

There are as many ways to discover your story as there are to trip over a dog in the kitchen–and some of them feel about as planned.

When you can’t enter through the front door, kick in a window.

I am the sum of my past experience.Some people have got a lot to answer for.

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

I’m not trying as a writer to be smart or to understand the inner workings of my narrator, I’m trying to survive the typing of this story.

If a man comes to the door of poetry untouched by the madness of the Muses, believing that technique alone will make him a good poet, he and his sane compositions never reach perfection, but...

Idleness is not just a vacation, an indulgence or a vice; it is as indispensable to the brain as vitamin D is to the body, and deprived of it we suffer a mental affliction as...

So I wonder what it is this need to tell.To animate somehow the deathly stillness of the profoundest beauty. Breathe life in the telling.

There are writers who write for fame. And there are writers who write because we need to make sense of the world we live in; writing is a way to clarify, to interpret, to reinvent....

One of the few things I know about writing is this:spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the...

If I don’t stay in and write, I feel like a prisoner.

Menulis fiksi adalah usaha untuk menciptakan tokoh-tokoh rekaan dan kejadian-kejadian penuh makna dalam batas-batas sempit dunia kecil yang aku kenal.

Concentrate on sharpening your memory and peeling your sensibility. Cut every page you write by at least one third. Stop constructing those piffling little similes of yours. Work out what it is you want to...

Writing is a beast to tame, an energy to transform. Whip that toad into a prince and French kiss it to life. We start at the top but keep looking down, from macro to micro,...

The Bible is the greatest book ever written.