Like good reading skills, good writing skills require immersion and imaginative engagement.

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

We all have a place within us, that would like to rewrite the way our life was written out for us….That’s why people want to become authors.

We bring to everything we read the expectations we have built up by a lifetime of reading.

To become successful, one must put themselves in the paths of giants!

USURY: Everybody’s looking for the job in which you never have to pay anyone their pound of flesh. Self-employed nirvana. A lot of artists like to think of themselves as uncompromising; a lot of management...

There is beauty in the art, and a story in the words! spk

Where do you think my new novel is? In the waste basket. I can see myself that it’s no good on earth, and when a loving author realizes this, what would be the judgment of...

I write description in longhand because that’s hardest for me and you’re closer to the paper when you work by hand, but I use the typewriter for dialogue because people speak like a typewriter works.

It can be hard to write a skillfully entertaining fiction, but a great book wants to be more, and wants more from us.

A writer’s promise is like a tiger’s smile

If you were waiting for a sign that you’re meant to be a writer…THIS IS IT.

Writing is a delicious agony.

Industry in art is a necessity—not a virtue—and any evidence of the same, in the production, is a blemish, not a quality; a proof, not of achievement, but of absolutely insufficient work, for work alone...

The self-addressed stamped envelope. The representation of everything that was wrong with the old publishing industry.

Pages and pages and pages with words all over the pages. My goodness, what fun. What fun to write whatever words occur.

Draw the art you want to see, start the business you want to run, play the music you want to hear, write the books you want to read, build the products you want to use...

The hardest thing about being a writer is convincing your wife that lying on the sofa is work.

It turns out that the distance from head to hand, from wafting butterfly to entomological specimen, is achieved through regular, disciplined practice. What begins as something like a dream will in fact stay a dream...

The act of putting pen to paper encourages pause for thought, this in turn makes us think more deeply about life, which helps us regain our equilibrium.

To be an artist means never to avert one’s eyes.

Nobody reads a book to get to the middle.

I wanted not the momentary suspense but the whole world to which it belonged.

To be a decent writer you must have both empathy and imagination. While these attributes aid your art, they can plague your soul. You don’t simply suffer your own sadness, experience your own longing and...

murder your darlings

Great writers wield their words like a weapon; a double-edged sword to strike their readers with truth where they least expect it. -Matthew D. Forgenti

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.

I said I want my eggs scrambled not destroyed.”At the explosion of such a sequence from our green young lips, we’d rashly scribble it on the wall of our apartment with a filthy wax pencil,...

A place that proves if you get enough talented people in a room, one or two are bound to offer some helpful advice. Kind if like monkeys with typewriters.

The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness.

Fiction is true. It doesn’t have to factual to be true.

The most difficult thing about writing; is writing the first line.

Novelty. Security. Novelty wouldn’t be a bad title. It had the grandness of abstraction, alerting the reader that large and thoughtful things were to be bodied forth. As yet he had no inkling of any...

File under “Hard Truths”: the creative muse is fiction. If you sit around waiting for the right moment to create, you will die waiting.

A few weeks after the worst day, I started writing lots of letters. I don’t know why, but it was one of the only things that made my boots lighter.

When the door to my writing chamber gasps shut and the almost imperceptible sigh of a rose petal falls on my desk, I know that my muse is present.

The writer doesn’t write for the reader. He doesn’t write for himself, either. He writes to serve…something. Somethingness. The somethingness that is sheltered by the wings of nothingness — those exquisite, enveloping, protecting wings.

My fingers burn behind the keys of my typewriter, the lettering fading with every thoughtful strike. The many words I write I dare not stall; my mind perpetually alert for my magnum opus call.

You cannot prove your worth by bylines and busyness.

Living like that utterly convinced me of the extreme limitations of language. I was just a child then, so I had only an intuitive understanding of the degree to which one losses control of words...

She thought a writer should work harder writing a book than she did reading it.

When I’m writing, I’m waiting to see somebody, and I’m waiting to hear them. It’s almost like conjuring spirits out of the air, using your own imaginative instability.

There are authors who write to communicate, there are authors who write to impress themselves.

When I begin to doubt my ability to work the word, I simply read another writer and know I have nothing to worry about. My contest is only with myself, to do it right, with...

I love revisions…We can’t go back and revise our lives, but being allowed to go back and revise what we have written comes closest.

But what I hope for in a book – either one that I write or one that I read – is transparency. I want the story to shine through. I don’t want to think of...

The first prerequisite for fine literature is that the writer must see the language not as a transparent medium for self-expression or the representation of reality, but as a medium one must struggle with to...

Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed? Can the writer isolate and vivify all in experience that most deeply engages our intellects and...

Sooner or later every writer evolves his own definition of a story.Mine is: A reflection of life plus beginning and end (life seems not to have either) and a meaning.

Writing is 90% procrastination, 8% perspiration, and 6%biscuitNone of it is math.