Słowo jest moją używką, moim narkotykiem, rozsmakowałem się w przedawkowywaniu

unless the sun inside you is burning your gut, don’t do it

Cordelia was thinking how human beings can invent words, how they can line up their invented words side by side on paper. It was magic.

Authors pretend their stories were always shiny and perfect and just waiting to be written. The truth is, writing is this: hard and boring and occasionally great but usually not. Even I have lied about...

I don’t think all writers are sad, she said.I think it’s the other way around—all sad people write.

This manuscript of yours that has just come back from another editor is a precious package. Don’t consider it rejected. Consider that you’ve addressed it ‘to the editor who can appreciate my work’ and it...

Who knew paper and ink could be so vicious

In fact that is why the lives of most women are so vaguely unsatisfactory. They are always doing secondary and menial things (that do not require all their gifts and ability) for others and never...

I am the poet, you are the poem; I hold the pen, you are the words, love is the ink, silence is the blank page.

Restrictions and writing shouldn’t mix. Let your mind be open. Let it be a creative canvas.

Let your words be your voice. And let your voice be heard within the hearts of others.

I haven’t any right to criticize books, and I don’t do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can’t conceal my...

To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.

The proper ending for any story about people it seems to me, since life is now a polymer in which the Earth is wrapped so tightly, should be the same abbreviation, which I now write...

Writers write while dreamers procastinate.

Writers are never fully present because they’re always imagining a different version of the way things are happening; imagining the past in a different way, imagining the present in a different way, imagining the future...

Careless and not particularly biting, it was easier to shrug off than anything in the first book which depicted me as an inarticulate zombie confused by the irony of Randy Newman’s “I Love L.A.

After reading Edgar Allan Poe. Something the critics have not noticed: a new literary world pointing to the literature of the 20th Century. Scientific miracles, fables on the pattern A+ B, a clear-sighted, sickly literature....

People ask me all the time, “Where do your ideas come from?” So, to clear up this question…I keep my ideas inside the mind of a tiny man who is tied up in my closet!

We should not write so that it is possible for the reader to understand us, but so that it is impossible for him to misunderstand us.

One writes because one has been touched by the yearning for and the despair of ever touching the Other.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

Yeah, I know what your English Professor tried to tell you. But if your English Professor could make a living writing fiction, they would have been doing it.

Whatever happened to me in my life, happened to me as a writer of plays. I’d fall in love, or fall in lust. And at the height of my passion, I would think, ‘So this...

Your narrative may fail to grip if you haven’t taken any care to find out how well or badly your audience member is faring (or feeling).

Doing it all the time, whether or not we are in the mood, gives us ownership of our writing ability. It takes it out of the realm of conjuring where we stand on the rock...

We aren’t suggesting that mental instability or unhappiness makes one a better poet, or a poet at all; and contrary to the romantic notion of the artist suffering for his or her work, we think...

Writing is something I do everyday. If I waited for inspiration, I’d never get anything done.

Writers are always anxious, always on the run–from the telephone, from responsibilities, from the distractions of the world.

The writer has little control over personal temperament, none over historical moment, and is only partly in charge of his or her own aesthetic.

All things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for anyone’s feelings.

It’s just not as hot without biting, scratching, and spanking, involved.

As for writing, that’s a cruel hard business. Unless you’re very lucky it’ll break your heart.

Sesungguhnya, penulis yang bersemangat jauh lebih menjanjikan daripada penulis yang berbakat.

This is the best time to be an author.

I keep on going with this sad and hungry and sordid, this limping and mutilated story, because after all I want you to hear it….By telling you anything at all I’m at least believing in...

A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.

Onecannot judge in advance whether or not the idea of the storyis worthwhile because until one has finished writing the storyone does not know for sure what the idea is; and one cannotjudge the style...

Figures are the most shocking things in the world. The prettiest little squiggles of black looked at in the right light and yet consider the blow they can give you upon the heart.

When life gives you lemons ~ write about ’em!

Don’t fool yourself. Talking about writing is not the same as actually doing it.

But it wasn’t the right season to lift off. Not yet. I sat in my apartment and looked out over the city, and I just didn’t feel any passion to write about the place. I...

writer”.

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

Mr Earbrass was virtually asleep when several lines of verse passed through his mind and left it hopelessly awake. Here was the perfect epigraph for TUH:A horrid ?monster has been [something] delay’dBy your/their indiff’rence in...

I write because he needs to know.

Writing is prayer.

I have a pesky little critic in the back of my mind. He’s a permanent fixture and passes judgment on everything I write.In order to placate him, especially when I’m endeavoring to write anything as...

As an author, I want to write what I’m inspired to write. Not what my readers want me to write. I feel like the books will ultimately be better if my heart is fully into...

I learned to dream through reading, learned to create dreams through writing, and learned to develop dreamers through teaching. I shall always be a dreamer.