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I just slept for fifteen hours straight. Yes, writing a musical is THAT exhausting!

Still writing?” I usually nod and smile, then quickly change the subject. But here is what I would like to put down my fork and say: Yes, yes, I am. I will write until the...

He said: I don’t like to read. And I said, honey, you haven’t found the right girl.

Words writers choose are a glimmering reflection into our souls.

A daily written thankful gratitude is a heavenly blessing.

Write and keep writing, not because people will like it, but because someone may get a kick out of thrashing your book.

I don’t believe in writers’ block. Do doctors have ‘doctors block?’ Do plumbers have ‘plumbers’ block?” No. We all have days when we don’t feel like working, but why do writers turn that into something...

…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...

If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.- Toni Morrison

While writing is like a joyful release, editing is a prison where the bars are my former intentions and the abusive warden my own neuroticism.

Can I be blunt on this subject? If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.

To write about a struggle amidst the struggling: one must hope that the muddling will end someday.

it’s been my experience that most writers don’t talk about their craft–they just do it

If you let yourself abandon the I-should-know-this-already attitude and simply accept your ignorance without giving yourself a hard time about it, then you can learn whatever it is you need to learn.

I am driven not for myself, but for others.

Every time I complete a major project I reward myself with two full days of just reading and coffee! I do justify that it is my work!

Whenever I have endured or accomplished some difficult task — such as watching television, going out socially or sleeping — I always look forward to rewarding myself with the small pleasure of getting back to...

Today I fed him right off the bat, and only checked Facebook twice.

The best thing that can happen to me when I’m writing fiction is to lose sight of the fact that I’m writing at all. It’s as though I enter into a kind of trance. I...

MFA in a Box is designed to help you to find the courage to put truth into words and to understand that writing is a life-and-death endeavor — but that nothing about a life-and-death endeavor...

The misnomer is that satirists are pessimists, or even misanthropes, but usually it is just a way to unlock human potential.

Nolan Bushnell, the creator of the Atari video game system, once stated, ‘Everyone who’s ever taken a shower has had an idea, It’s the person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does...

…{N}othing is harder for the developing writer than overcoming his anxiety that he is fooling himself and cheating or embarrassing his family and friends.

I like to make blank pages darker. It’s this thing I do.

As an author I’m in my head all day and I worry that I lose touch with reality. But then my dog pees on my shoe and I know I’ve found it again.

The depression was not incapacitating. It made it hard to take a lot of my suburban life seriously, but that was inextricably mingled with a growing consciousness of the larger brutalities of the world. Ethiopian...

Real-life duties eat valuable writing time.

You are what you write.

Writing a complete novel is time consuming, frustrating, nerve wrecking, and most of the time your work is under valued, under appreciated, and taken for granted. So why do authors do it? Because not writing...

When I write, I write obsessively. I try to pace myself, but some fires are too hot to put out.

The beauty of writing is imagining new endings to a time of darkness, like burning off a morning fog with the heat and clarity of the sun.

Writing is my joy, is my comfort zone, it strengthens my feeble knees and it frees my troubled heart.

I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing this.[Cormac McCarthy’s Venomous Fiction, New York Times, April 19, 1992]

When I started to learn how to read, I discovered the same kind of power. I could create an environment that I didn’t have, and I could order this environment in the way that I...

A novel is always more complicated than it seems at the beginning. Indeed a novel should be more complicated than it seems at the beginning.

I should be writing …

Those who speak in spiritual terms routinely refer to God as creator but seldom see “creator” as the literal term for “artist”. I am suggesting you take the term “creator” quite literally. You are seeking...

Forget how long the path to finishing your story. Address only what you have to write today.

To work, her dumb lunge says,is to move a certain mass…through a certain distance,is to pull your weight and feelexact and equal to it.Feel dragged upon. And buoyant.

When I’m writing, I make words my b*tch. But when I’m editing, the words make me their b*tch. It all equals out in the end.

Behind every novel is a greater story of how it came to be published.

Come now, I was not about to let that thing eat you.

Only when one is connected to one’s inner core is one connected to others. And, for me, the core, the inner spring, can best be re-found through solitude.

And here you see me working out, as cheerfully and thankfully as I may, my doom of sharing in the glass a constant change of customers, and of lying down and rising up with the...

My best writing happens when I’m fighting to produce it.

Because. Everything worth anything takes time.

Your flesh is not a reflection of your soul. So when you look in the mirror, remember that your light outshines your flaws.

Who knows why we do it? And when we’ve done it, nobody wants it. Still we keep doing it. That’s what makes a writer a writer.

Blessed are the weird people: poets, misfits, writersmystics, painters, troubadoursfor they teach us to see the world through different eyes.