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

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...

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

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

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

Old words are reborn with new faces.

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...

Writing is a product of silence.

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

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...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The hospital bulked darkly in the darkness.

The fairy tale is in a perpetual state of becoming and alteration. To keep to one version or one translation alone is to put robin redbreast in a cage.

Don’t just read to read. Read to understand.

The thing about a story is that you dream it as you tell it, hoping that others might then dream along with you, and in this way memory and imagination and language combine to make...

Be passionate about what you write, believe in your ability to convey timeless ideas, and let no one tell you what what you’re capable of.

…at some point you need to stop looking out at others and start looking inward, at yourself, at your own accomplishments, at your own foibles, at your own successes and your own failures. It’s only...

Writing from memory like this, I often feel a pang of dread. What if I’ve forgotten the most important thing? What if somewhere inside me there is a dark limbo where all the the truly...

It has been often said that writing is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration. In my experience, this is true. But, in my opinion, it is useless without that 1 percent. It’s like an...

You don’t make art out of good intentions.

Writing about the 1950s has given me tremendous respect for my mother’s generation.

Like most little girls, I found the lure of grown-up accessories astonishing – lipstick, perfume, hats and gloves. When I write female characters in my historical novels, getting these details right is vital.

No harm’s done to history by making it something someone would want to read.”(The Course of Human Events, NEH Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities 2003)

Let’s unwrite these pages and replace them with our own words

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

The quality which makes man want to write and be read is essentially a desire for self-exposure and masochism. Like one of those guys who has a compulsion to take his thing out and show...

You learn almost as much about a thinker from what he reads—in particular, what he likes and what he disdains—as from what he writes himself.

I’ve found myself moved by letters and diaries in archives as well as trashy, summer blockbusters. It’s possible to make a connection with any kind of writing – as long as the writing is good.

Spiritual growth and creativity are two sides of the same coin.

The great thing about writing fiction is that you can do whatever the fuck you want, go as far as you are willing to go, and laugh at the people who take it seriously.

You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are...