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.

You don’t have to reinvent the wheel… just steal the hubcaps.” ― Michael P. Naughton,

…writing Jeeves stories gives me a great deal of pleasure and keeps me out of the public houses.

Art is too often discounted as a secondary priority. The writer is necessary to society.

Fear is good. Like self-doubt, fear is an indicator. Fear tells us what we have to do. Remember our rule of thumb: The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure...

People who make snide comments to authors like “anyone can write a book” or “well, you did it, so obviously I can/it can’t be that hard” or poke at a book because it’s “romance” or...

I have spent a good many years since―too many, I think―being ashamed about what I write. I think I was forty before I realized that almost every writer of fiction or poetry who has ever...

Henry had written a novel because there was a hole in him that needed filling, a question that needed answering, a patch of canvas that needed painting—that blend of anxiety, curiosity and joy that is...

The writer does not dare dream of giving the best of his individuality. No, he must never express his anger. The vacillating demands of mediocrity must be satisfied. Amuse the people, be their clown, give...

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!...

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

Most days, writing simply requires work-ethic, discipline, clarity, focus, time. Other days…it will demand absolutely everything of you.

Sleepless nights, infinite random thoughts, Remembering those moments, he had much to say, an urge to talk to someone, to be cared, to be loved, to be understood !! She was gone by now, And...

From … the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be a writer. … I tried to abandon this idea, but I did so with the consciousness that...

I write not because I’ve to, I write because I’m compelled too. I love what I do, I see purpose in the words I write. I see that within myself, there is a way to...

…nearly everything seems a letdown after a writer has finished writing something.

I read your diary. I KNOW.

Books aren’t written, they’re rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn’t quite done it…

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

To write a book is to risk being shot at in public.

Look for the little loves. Find and shape the little bitternesses.

intellectual” snobbery. It’s a hushed but ugly truth that people are made to feel not worthy to be among a certain set – didn’t attend the right school or don’t have the requisite abbreviations to...

Just write. That’s my only tip. And read. I guess that’s two.

Do what you love, especially if your sharing the word

I wear the writer pants in the family.

I’m an observer. I am fascinated by people and how their minds work (and, of course, my own). Why we are the way we are, why we do the things we do – and that...

Don’t give in to doubt. Never be discouraged if your first draft isn’t what you thought it would be. Given skill and a story that compels you, muster your determination and make what’s on the...

No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys the writing, even if he doesn’t get paid for it.

Split your skull—a hatchet works well enough. Take a more delicate instrument—a scalpel, perhaps—and make a hand-sized slit; it doesn’t matter where. Reach in (no glove needed), plunge down to the very bottom, pinch the...

Last night your thin walls invited me to the party next door / reminded me I am a quiet person in a quiet life.