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.

…I make no apology about stirring the depths – every human longs to swim under water and see what lurks beneath …

1. Write like you’ll live forever — fear is a bad editor.2. Write like you’ll croak today — death is the best editor.3. Fooling others is fun. Fooling yourself is a lethal mistake.4. Pick one...

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...

I suppose that I did for myself what psychoanalysts do for their patients. I expressed some very long felt and deeply felt emotion. And in expressing it I explained it and then laid it to...

I’ve discovered that sometimes writing badly can eventually lead to something better. Not writing at all leads to nothing.

Always being myself and my salve, which is life. I’m not lonely, if that’s what it seems like. Always writing things down.

I recommend writing standing up from time to time. It’s easier to dance when you finish writing.

Because. Everything worth anything takes time.

The writer’s life requires courage, patience, empathy, openness. It requires the ability to be alone with oneself. Gentle with oneself. To be disciplined, and at the same time, take risks.

I think there are two types of writers, the architects and the gardeners. The architects plan everything ahead of time, like an architect building a house. They know how many rooms are going to be...

Starting your book is only the first five miles of a twenty-six-mile marathon that’s one-third of a triathlon (authoring, publishing, and entrepreneuring).

In front of me 327 pages of the manuscript [Master and Margarita] (about 22 chapters). The most important remains – editing, and it’s going to be hard. I will have to pay close attention to...

It’s basically an act of faith, hoping that a small idea will unspool into a bigger whole. Sometimes, in fact often, it doesn’t and it just runs out of steam. The hope for me is...

Raise the bar. Don’t duck under it.

Most—but not all—of the writers I knew then were young men who cherished their independence, were unconcerned about job security, and were serious about their writing. They didn’t want to be anyone’s employee if it...

In quickness is truth. The more swiftly you write, the more honest you are. In hesitation is thought. In delay comes the effort for a style, instead of leaping upon truth which is the only...

The first thing you have to learn when you go into the arts is to learn to cope with rejection. If you can’t, you’re dead

I long for some connection, to the real and those who love them, and hope that my fiction can reach beyond the veil, that I might touch someone and make them feel something…or something.

The author is impacted by a hidden insistence that takes the shape of different combinations each time adifferent text is produced but the underlying problem remains the same for him.

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

Dedicating a writing session to someone is like sending a prayer for them out into the world. I will never know if my writing, my dedication to them, my prayer for them made any difference...

Always remember that writing is an alliance between author and reader. With every line we put down on the page, we need to leave room for the reader’s imagination and intellect.