Writing is like a religion to those who don’t practise, an act of faith for those who do.

When it comes to work, I will stop at nothing. When it comes to writing, I will never stop.

Write like no one is reading.

Words become sentences, twisted, difficult/The story weaves itself, always noisiest at night/As herds of words won’t stop. . . “Wildebeest of Words/Breathe In

I’ve always loved the night, when everyone else is asleep and the world is all mine. It’s quiet and dark—the perfect time for creativity.

To write is to reveal oneself.When I write something, fiction or non-fiction, I do not expect you to accept what I write, nor to agree with what I propose.I expect you to spend at least...

Writers start with a grain of sand, and then create a beach.

Receiving very little or no feedback from my writing I really don’t know if people like it or if they are actually reading any of my work for that matter. Still I will continue to...

Writers begin with a grain of sand, and then create a beach.

Sometimes it’s great, and sometimes it’s shit.These are the things all the great philosophersjust won’t tell you flat out about life. You keep moving, keep living, keep breathingAnd you keep writing-creating because that’s what you...

I already knew the next story that I was going to rewrite from the beginning. Mine.

I’m ambidextrous. I can write just as poorly with either hand.

Intent and dreaming is nice but its not, will never be enough. If you want something bad enough in life then you must fight for it or go after it. Life doesn’t just come to...

… in art nothing is more secondary than the author’s intentions.

Old words are reborn with new faces.

Writing is a product of silence.

The best thing about being an author is the unspoken approval to dream while awake.

What people dont know about you people create. Imagination is a part of being human. They fill in the unknowns with assumptions and not facts. Every man and woman is a mystery unrevealed.

Authors can write stories without people assuming that they are autobiographies, but songwriters and poets are often considered to be the characters in their works. I like Michelangelo’s vision, ‘I saw the angel in the...

It starts off like climbing a tree or solving a puzzle – poetry, if nothing else, is just fun to write. But deeper into each and every piece, you no longer hesitate to call it...

Let your heart dance with pen and paperNow fill the paper with dancing letters.

The sonnet, a lyrical poem, the beauty and magic… convey with our hearts the truth of the universe in a single moment briefly.

The most exciting part of writing a novel is when the characters take control of the story

A principle for writing, investing, and life in general: It is much easier to notice when something is working than to predict ahead of time if it will work. Take action, make many small bets,...

There is an art to writing, and it is not always disclosure. The act itself can be beautiful, revelatory, and private.

To become a writer a person must read constantly, the more varied the writers and their material then all the better. One must also have a lot of life experience, travel to exotic locations and...

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

I can elect something I love and absorb myself in it.

The hospital bulked darkly in the darkness.

By the way I also would say “I got a book.” But your teacher and I are not “English teachers” in the same sense. She has to put across an idea of what the English...

Good writing is always new.

No one has yet tested the pencilTo see how many words it can write

This is the paradox of the power of literature: it seems that only when it is persecuted does it show its true powers, challenging authority, whereas in our permissive society it feels that it is...

I’m the biggest critic of my own work, but sometimes you nail a chapter so good that you have to take a step back and admire that bitch.

Write. Don’t talk about writing. Don’t tell me about your wonderful story ideas. Don’t give me a bunch of ‘somedays’. Plant your ass and scribble, type, keyboard. If you have any talent at all it...

Ivanov’s fear was of a literary nature. That is, it was the fear that afflicts most citizens who, one fine (or dark) day, choose to make the practice of writing, and especially the practice of...

Your boss takes a dim view of SEX?

Write for impact first, money second. If you do it the other way around, you’ll end up with less of either.

The world requires me to re-write its wretched dialogue!

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...

All Poets are mad.

Realize that by hurting your own characters, you are not a sadist. You are not deliberately hurting your loved ones merely to watch them suffer. You’re giving a gift. You’re helping them grow and develop....

I’m convinced that fear is at the root of most bad writing. If one is writing for one’s own pleasure, that fear may be mild — timidity is the word I’ve used here. If, however,...

Words are precious things meant to create, to imagine, to dream with.

I think writing is like ministry. You get this call and you run before accepting it. If you run right to it, there’s a good chance you were not called.

Modern tragic writers have to write short stories; if they wrote long stories…cheerfulness would creep in. Such stories are like stings; brief, but purely painful.

I don’t write fantasy; I write historical novels about an imaginary place.

Writing is like sculpturing words out of a block of imagination. Sentences chisel the story, then characters make it their own.

Sure, it’s simple writing for kids…just as simple as bringing them up.

You can’t judge a book by it’s cover but you can sure sell a bunch of books if you have a good one.