Sometimes stories cry out to be told in such loud voices that you write them just to shut them up.

stint” each day; you will have more words to your credit at the end of the year.Study the tricks of the writers who have arrived. They have mastered the tools with which you are cutting...

Music is a language – and language, at its finest, should be music.

J’ai un but, une t che, disons le mot, une passion. Le métier d’écrire en est une violente et presque indestructible.”(“I have an object, a task, let me say the word, a passion. The profession...

By remaining constrained in one’s environment or country or family, one has little chance of being other than the original prescription. By leaving, one gains a perspective, a distance of both space and time, which...

Writing is a lonely business, which if allowed publicity and socializing it might deteriorate. Supportive people understand the need of a writer to withdraw to the solitude of oneself.

It’s possible, in a poem or a short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to endow those things– a chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone,...

Writing is the only thing that when I do it, I don’t feel I should be doing something else.

Language spread its warm, absurd rays over all my adolescent thoughts, and I felt the way we all long to feel: moody, lonely, lovesick and explosive with the prospects of tomorrow.

You say grace before meals. I say grace before I dip the pen in the ink.

how these words, wait to diein the arms of all the poetry..yet to be written.

I guess you can call me “old fashioned”. I prefer the book with the pages that you can actually turn. Sure, I may have to lick the tip of my fingers so that the pages...

Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are.

I before E except after C. Weird?By rebelling against the rules the word itself denotes its very meaning: of strange or extraordinary character, odd, fantastic.I think all writers are weird.

Basically, writers write because they have something to say…Everyone has a story in them, writers merely decide to share it with the world…

My heart is bigger than my fist.

A good piece of fiction, in my view, does not offer solutions. Good stories deal with our moral struggles, our uncertainties, our dreams, our blunders, our contradictions, our endless quest for understanding. Good stories do...

A pen that has clocked up a million words, a lifetime’s memories, is worth more than the centrepiece in a jeweller’s window.

I write to escape. I haven’t managed it yet, but I’m working on it

To write is your last resort when you’ve betrayed someone.

I have sat here at my desk, day after day, night after night, a blank sheet of paper before me, unable to lift my pen, trembling and weeping too.

The public wants work which flatters its illusions.

In the planning stage of a book, don’t plan the ending. It has to be earned by all that will go before it.

Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That’s why it’s so hard.”(Interview with NEH chairman Bruce Cole, Humanities, July/Aug. 2002, Vol. 23/No. 4)

For me, writing stories set, well, wherever they’re best set, is a form of cultural curiosity that is uniquely Scottish – we’re famous for travelling in search of adventure.

I write to reach eternity

An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.

I create, therefore I am.

I belong to this notebook and this pencil.

1. Write every day2. Write what interests you.3. Write for the child inside of you. (Or the adult, if you are writing adult books.)4. Write with honest emotion5. Be careful of being facile6. Be wary...

And every good artist knows that the gift comes from somewhere else, and it’s there for a reason, and that’s to make the world a better place.

Originality is not writing the story that has never been told, but writing the stories only you can tell.

All writers–all beings–are exiles as a matter of course. The certainty about living is that it is a succession of expulsions of whatever carries the life force…All writers are exiles wherever they live and their...

I have always been a huge admirer of my own work. I’m one of the funniest and most entertaining writers I know.

Why, because an author has more rights than ordinary people, as everybody knows. People will stand much more from him.

In my view, a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway.

I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter.”(Letter 16, 1657)

Play around. Dive into absurdity and write. Take chances. You will succeed if you are fearless of failure.

We shared ideas like sweaters, with easy exchange and lack of ownership.

Writing is discovering what you don’t know.

A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.

A writing cook and a cooking writer must be bold at the desk as well as the stove.

Cowok itu jarang nulis. Sekalinya iya, ada dua kemungkinan :a. Langsung bagus dan jadi dewa (macamnya Kak Fauzi : dua dari dua buku yang aku beli mengesankan ^^. Sayang Genere Fantasy enggak dilirik orang kebanyakan)b....

Speak in your own voice about the things that matter to you.

There are only two ways, really, to become a writer. One is to write. The other is to read.

The right to write is too sacred to be wrong with.

Be sure not to discuss your hero’s state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.”(Letter to Alexander Chekhov, May 10, 1886)

I used to believe authenticity could be achieved solely by describing, in our own words, one’s own fragment of experience. This was of course predicated on the complete intellectual and aesthetic independence of the “I”....

Fiction and non-fiction are only different techniques of story telling. For reasons I do not fully understand, fiction dances out of me. Non-fiction is wrenched out by the aching, broken world I wake up to...

In front of me 327 pages of the manuscript [Master and Margarita] (about 22 chapters). The most important remains – editing, and it’s going to be hard. I will have to pay close attention to...