For me, at least, fiction is the only way i can even begin to twist my lying memories into something true.

Listening to Led Zeppelin’s Heartbreaker while reading your own book, sipping a beer after midnight, is a satisfying feeling…however fleeting.

The only man she ever loved. And hated.

Without a doubt the two best words in the English language are The End

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

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

George Banks and all he stands for will be saved. Maybe not in life, but in imagination. Because that’s what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and...

Writing only leads to more writing.

I’m sorry if…I get too personal, if I make you uncomfortable, but writing is like one of the seven deadly sins, like Sharing on Mr. Rogers, and once you get the bug you’re trapped in...

Writing is the great invention of the world.

Panic strikes me when I think about a sentence that isn’t given the chance to live because I don’t have a pen in my hand or am not sitting near enough to someone familiar to...

One day, I decided I was going to write books forever.

I still love the sound of breaking,the tearing of the page

This is a little secret that all writers share: We have two lives; the one we live on Earth and the one we live in our books.

This piece of earth I billet grows small. Bullets of time dart past, dropping shards of opportunity at my feet. And until the rift that surrounds my decaying body clamps shut—swallows me up like so...

As an outsider I was free to pick my own literary traditions, to build my own system of literary values.

Never stop learning and never give up!

Success does not bring happiness. Success brings success.

That night I looked Stephanie [Burt] up online and started reading more about her work…I kept encountering a striking factoid…: she’s often cited as the most influential poetry critic of her generation. And she’s openly...

Writing starts with living.—Rumors of Water: Thoughts on Creativity & Writing

America takes her writers too seriously.

Tattoos are a permanent commitment of passion

We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing – an actor, a writer – I am a person who does things – I write, I act – and I never know...

sometimes i wake upin the middleof the nightand findpoetry splatteredall over my bed.

People should think that being a writer is cool. Even if you’re just a starving writer. Besides, most great writers were starving at one point or another. It comes with the title.

Cowok itu jarang nulis. Sekalinya iya, ada dua kemungkinan :a. Langsung bagus dan jadi dewa (macamnya Kak Fauzi : dua dari dua buku yang aku beli mengesankan ^^. Sayang Genere Fantasy enggak dilirik orang kebanyakan)b....

I see Sarah framed in the light of her doorway and it is like looking at a painting that emanate a mixture of wishes and truths about someone I loved – from a time I...

I lose it when I can’t write. I feel sad and confused and fucked off.

Collaborating on a film script involves two people sitting in a room separated by the silence of two minds working together.

The privilege is not writing a novel, it’s to have someone read it. When you look at it that way, you realize the responsibility you have to put your very best on the page.

I feign knowledge of writing: that I know something about it, that I should have learned something after all these years, that I might know something tomorrow. I read too much and write too little,...

Writing is my life. Life is my hobby.

One of the ways to discover our toughness and resiliency is to look back at where we come from. (from Amazon description)

I feel the most alive when I write.

All writers have this vague hope that the elves will come in the night and finish any stories.

a purveyor of insipid wet-dreams.

It’s amazing how fast you can write when there’s a gun to your head.

The Baby Name book can be a very dangerous tool in the hands of a prolific author.

Sometimes a fresh perspective is all you need to get a second wind on the revision process. Try viewing your material on a different medium; it will shed a new light on the inconsistencies in...