Anna Karenina,” all novels that are hard to stop reading even when it seems as if it should be easy.

I’m not gonna lie…sometimes this whole writing thing is a lonely business.

For me, not knowing your theme until your finished is like using a scalpel to turn a kangaroo into Miss Universe – there will be a lot of deep cuts, and there’s a high chance...

Writing is the thing that props me up.

She would have thought that working and living in continuous happiness, harmony, and security day after day would lead to mental lethargy, that her writing would suffer from too much happiness, that she needed a...

« L’écrit ça arrive comme le vent, c’est nu, c’est de l’encre, c’est l’écrit, et ça passe comme rien d’autre ne passe dans la vie, rien de plus, sauf elle, la vie. »

To write a profound thought, I have to put myself onto a very special stratum, otherwise the ideas and words just don’t come. I have to forget myself and at the same time be superconcentrated....

A novelist is essentially a person who covers distance through his patience, slowly, like an ant. A novelist impresses us not by his demonic and romantic vision, but by his patience.

… my early writing was a silent fury – at what or whom, I had no idea – but I shut it in until it burned my bones and now, I’ve let it out…

We live in a society that doesn’t offer any support or appreciation for ventures that aren’t clearly articulated and aligned for a goal. A writer gets past this. It’s going to be a mess before...

Don’t start right off writing the ‘Great American Novel’, that’s too much pressure and you’ll get disappointed; start with porn, it’s fun and a good way to get your feet wet.

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...

Let your characters lead when you’re dancing together.

All the best writers take risks, offend people often and say fuck you to the critics.

People who think that grammar is just a collection of rules and restrictions are wrong. If you get to like it, grammar reveals the hidden meaning of history, hides disorder and abandonment, links things and...

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...

A day of bad writing is always better than a day of no writing.

A successful self-publisher must fill three roles: Author, Publisher, and Entrepreneur—or APE.

The only thing you really need to be a writer is time. Regular, consistent time, quality time when you’re not tired. I write on the bus to and from work, that’s my time, 1 or...

A general is like a writer who wants to write a play, or a book, but whom the book itself, with the unexpected options that it reveals at one point, the impasse it presents at...

Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.

I tell him getting stuck is the commonest trouble of all. Usually, I say, your mind gets stuck when you’re trying to do too many things at once. What you have to do is try...

A fiction writer weaves a fabric of lies in hopes of revealing deeper human truths.

…he told a story about the days when he was a reporter himself and how he had gotten so close to story that he finally couldn’t write it…When I stared at something long enough, the...

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

If a writer starts worring about what he or she has left out or forgotten, they might not be able to write even a single line.

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

To become better writers we must become the best thieves and liars in the business. We slink around the pages of everyone else’s work and shove it into our pockets. Then we run home and...

The art of writing is not as solitary as one might think. When it finally dawns on us one day that our task as writers is to share what we know of the human spirit,...

Oh God, for a few who will love me in tiny ways every single day of my flashing existence. For a mere one or two who will treat me like the trash I am, who...

From the beginning, I did not intend to create a typical classic fantasy. I wanted an organic, harmonious world where my story could evolve. If this world needed gnomes, I put them in there. As...

Eating words and listening to them rumbling in the gut is how a writer learns the acid and alkali of language. It is a process at the same time physical and intellectual. The writer has...

Writing to impress others is the surest path to pretentious mediocrity.

I write not because I want to but because I am destined to.

…language always occurs in a context – you can speak Elizabethan words, but to speak the language you have to put on the mindset…

Laughing in my ear is a muse amused by how I paint her whims on paper with silly words.

Kalo nggak nulis, ya baca. Kalo nggak baca, ya nonton film saja lah.

Writers are always alone, even in a room bursting with noises of the familiar.

The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.

10 Steps to Becoming a Better WriterWrite.Write more.Write even more.Write even more than that.Write when you don’t want to.Write when you do.Write when you have something to say.Write when you don’t.Write every day.Keep writing.

So it is that a writer writes many books. In each book, he intended several urgent and vivid points, many of which he sacrificed as the book’s form hardened.

Sometimes I think that creativity is a matter of seeing, or stumbling over, unobvious similarities between things—like composing a fresh metaphor, but on a more complex scale. One night in Hiroshima it occurred to me...

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

Heavy as such things areAfter the wordslide, the writing begins.”From “Word Quake

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....

Bastam poucas palavras para escrever uma história e apenas uma pessoa para a ler.

A short story is a sprint, a novel is a marathon. Sprinters have seconds to get from here to there and then they are finished. Marathoners have to carefully pace themselves so that they don’t...

People who want to write books do so because they feel it to be the easiest thing they can do. They can read and write, they can afford any of the instruments of book writing...

Writer’s block isn’t always a problem. It can be a process of writing that helps us write better.