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...

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.

Be Visionary …

Writers are a superior breed. No one else can face so much rejection and still thrive.

Writing is like breathing underwater. It’s really hard to do unless you can imagine yourself a nice set of gills.

I’ve probably put my 10,000 hours into writing, but I believe writing well is also greatly influenced by certain intangibles like mood and inspiration.

Lyrics paved my teenage route to loving words. I take those passionate mini-stories with me everywhere.

I live, love and loathe my characters. They stole my mind. They stole my heart.

A writing day is like any other day. Except I live in my pajamas, I forget to eat, and I suddenly look up, wondering when day turned into night.

When reading a book, one hopes it doesn’t turn into a painful process. Predictable is bad enough. Laborious is acceptable if the labor produces fruit. But with painfully bad writing, all one can do is...

I read the novel I had been writing for several months with an odd sense that it was the work of a stranger. I usually work in the dead hours of night and surprising the...

I remember when I first began writing, I would spend maybe five or six hours on perhaps two paragraphs, and at the end of the day, not only were the paragraphs pretty terrible but I...

I write because, as wonderful as life is – and it is truly wonderful – it isn’t enough. It does not, for example, contain dragons. I find this unsatisfactory. So I read. And I write.

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

If everyone could be a successful and rich author, there would be no point in working so hard. Where is the fun in that?

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

Authors always feel in danger of being abandoned by loved ones. This is a potent fear. Yet it’s as inevitable as writer’s cramp when we presume to write words for others to read.

What Writing Is: Telepathy, of course.

Research” is a wonderful word for writers. It serves as excuse for EVERYTHING

When sitting in an armchair isn’t enough… I write. What I mean is that when it no longer suffices to sit and dream about travelling to other times, other places, I write about them instead....

I feel my fear moving away in rings through time for a million years.

Most people assume I write at night because of the kind of books I write, but I can shut out the light with my mind.

Every day I must prove to myself I am a writer. The knowledge goes away in my sleep. What I wrote yesterday was paltry, meager, so flawed it is barely anything. Or, if it is...

Books are like horcruxes–without all the evil–because a piece of the author goes into each one.

Nonfiction. I didn’t choose it as much as it chose me. It squatted and birthed me one raw winter day then jerked me up and set me to scribing.

In the story of life, the prologue and epilogue are written by God. Yet the plot has been given to us; therefore we should write the best prose we can.

Writing Tip:Don’t let the “writing rules” bog you down when you’re writing the first draft; they don’t matter when you’re writing the story, only when you’re editing the story.

There are authors who write to communicate, there are authors who write to impress themselves.

The awful part of the writing game is that you can never be sure the stuff is any good.

I do enjoy writing, and I hope someone gets something interesting out of this book. I already have. Now, If I ever have to write a book that is not about me, I may be...

If You Can Stand It, Play the Long Game . . .What I mean here is that you have to remain committed to the ultimate goal, which isn’t to win the immediate approval of the...

I love my career. It is a career. A difficult one that takes many hours and total dedication to my craft. It is also what I was born to do–tell stories and entertain.

I never waited for my Irish Cream coffee to be the right temperature, with a storm happening outside and my fireplace crackling … I wrote every day, at home, in the office, whether I felt...

In eleven or twelve years of writing, Mike, I can lay claim to at least this: I have never written beneath myself. I have never written anything that I didn’t want my name attached to....

Let your characters lead when you’re dancing together.

Sometimes we dream of things that we’ve always wanted–of things that we have been searching for our whole lives without knowing it…and other times we wake up and know what we have to do. I...

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

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.

That’s why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. You can’t control life, at least you can control your version.

I like what I do. Some writers have said in print that they hated writing and it was just a chore and a burden. I certainly don’t feel that way about it. Sometimes it’s difficult....

I before E except after C. Weird?By rebelling against the rules the word itself denotes its very meaning: of strange or extraordinary character, odd, fantastic.I think all writers are weird.