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.

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.

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 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.

It is, of course, not only impossible for readers to know the intention of most, if not all, writers, but an author himself may think he is writing one thing while he is in fact...

Panicky despair is an underrated element of writing.

Q: Where and when do you do your writing? A: Any small room with no natural light will do. As for when, I have no particular schedules… afternoons are best, but I’m too lethargic for...

Can writing ever be taught? The best answer to that was given obliquely by the rock musician David Lee Roth. When asked if money could buy happiness he said, no, but with money you could...

I’m very much aware in the writing of dialogue, or even in the narrative too, of a rhythm. There has to be a rhythm with it … Interviewers have said, you like jazz, don’t you?...

Like many of the kids I write about, I once was a runaway myself—and a few (but not all) of the other writers in the series also come from troubled backgrounds. That early experience influences...

Because even among contrarians, I’m a contrarian. But all of this is just words of bronze, third place rhetoric. What do I really mean when I say we want to shock society into awareness? Do...

So don’t be frightened, dear friend, if a sadness confronts you larger than any you have ever known, casting its shadow over all you do. You must think that something is happening within you, and...

Working together as a team helps build a cohesive organization.

I don’t write about what I know: I write in order to find out what I know.

Take each day in your open palms and close your fists around it. This life is not done with you yet.

The joy of writing.The power of preserving.Revenge of a mortal hand.

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Everything I’ve written up to this point is crap. Now I’m going to write the real one

I die with the dying light, yet shine brighter as the darkness approaches. Soon I’ll be whittled to bone and stripped clean through, nothing left but a skeleton on which to hang a hat. But...

I’ve written for the waste basket so often that we’ve become friends. He writes too, but it’s mostly garbage.

Half of what I write is garbage, but if I don’t write it down it decomposes in my head.

All of fiction is truthful. What you create is your own truth and no one can take that away or change it.

I wrote a coded love note in my report for work. All the letters you need to read what I wrote are there—you just have to find them and rearrange the order until you’ve arrived...