What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written.

Have you ever been writing something when you just forgot where you were, and what time it was, and you kept diving down deeper into your words?No, it’s more like diving down through your words–past...

When a person reaches the end of a book and says, ‘I want to read that again,’ what he’s actually saying is that he wants to mentally merge with his favorite character and stroll among...

Ending a novel is almost like putting a child to sleep – it can’t be done abruptly.”[Colm Tóibín, Novelist – Portrait of the Artist, The Guardian, 19 February 2013]

Remember, it is no sign of weakness or defeat that your manuscript ends up in need of major surgery. This is a common occurrence in all writing, and among the best writers.

The artist and the mother are vehicles, not originators. They don’t create the new life, they only bear it. This is why birth is such a humbling experience. The new mom weeps in awe at...

Storytelling? God started that. Discovery. Lust. Murder. Revenge. Power. Sin. Redemption. Forgiveness. Miracles. We simply retell the stories in the language of our generation.

Writing is the supreme solace.

Good evening, Lord Corwin,’ said the lean, cadaverous figure who rested against a storage rack, smoking his pipe, grinning around it.Good evening, Roger. How are things in the nether world?’A rat, a bat, a spider....

I do so much writing. But so much of it never goes anywhere, never sees any light of day. I suppose that’s like gardening in the basement. I don’t publish so much of what I...

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.

Send message to the future by writing it today!

My existence began the day you were created and was realized the day we met.

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...

THE POLITICIANIf it wasn’t for graft, you’d get a very low type of people in politics. Men without ambition. Jellyfish!CATHERINEEspecially since you can’t rob the people anyway.THE POLITICIANSure…How was that?CATHERINEWhat you rob, you spend. And...

Trying to write is very much like trying to put a Chinese puzzle together. We have a pattern in mind which we wish to work out in words; but the words will not fit the...

As I quietly stare off into space, eyes glazed over and brow thoughtfully taut, know that I am going about my business. I am a storyteller. Daydreaming is the best part of my job.

[Referring to passage by Alice Munro] Finally, the passage contradicts a form of bad advice often given young writers — namely, that the job of the author is to show, not tell. Needless to say,...

Women writers make for rewarding (and efficient) lovers. They are clever liars to fathers and husbands; yet they never hold their tongues too long, nor keep ardent typing fingers still.

pencils racing across paper, a sound I like.” Marisol

It’s a very excruciating life facing that blank piece of paper every day and having to reach up somewhere into the clouds and bring something down out of them.

The finder of his theme will be at no loss for words.

You have made some notes, read some writing books, and done some research. Mostly what you’ve done is talk about writing a book. An idea for a book is not a book; it is a...

We live in a society that doesn’t offer any support or appreciation for ventures that aren’t clearly articulated and aligned for a goal. A writer gets past this. It’s going to be a mess before...

I started out of course with Hemingway when I learned how to write. Until I realized Hemingway doesn’t have a sense of humor. He never has anything funny in his stories.

We all are rich and ignore the buried fact of accumulated wisdom.

My writings are my letters to the universe, who loved me like a mother.

People who make snide comments to authors like “anyone can write a book” or “well, you did it, so obviously I can/it can’t be that hard” or poke at a book because it’s “romance” or...

Everything you need to know about life can be learned from a genuine and ongoing attempt to write

You can’t put much on paper before you betray your secret self, try as you will to keep things civil.

There are two motives for writing a book: one, that you may save what you know, the other, that you may share what you know with the public.

In a world where everyone struggles to survive whatever the cost, how could one judge those who decide to die?

If a book can save—redeem us from the mediocrity of the mundane—surely, there must be a God.

I’m feeling a low regarding writing. I sometimes think I should finish working on my book of stripper poetry that I started, but other times I feel like it’s not worth it. Sometimes I think...

I think that’s why I write—the not knowing and the blasted good feeling I get out of it all.

I’ve always felt that the performance of a raag resembles a novel – or at least the kind of novel I’m attempting to write. You know,’ he continued, extemporizing as he went along, ‘first you...

I used to be a bumper sticker kind of writer. Now I’m more developed, and my writing often takes up whole bumpers.

I am, as it were, the created creating—a paradox, for all its rhetorical trappings, at the beating heart of our shared human journey, and one I invite you to struggle with just as I have...

Hemingway suggested you write the truest sentence you know. I say write the falsest one you don’t know. This is fiction.

I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.

The word ubiquitous is itself ubiquitous in today’s writing.

Science fiction at its best should be crazy and dangerous, not sane and safe.

When I write I am an avocado, and in a team sport setting, I am guacamole. And not to sour cream on your dreams, but with my love life, I am a nacho.

Only write if you can’t not.

He who writes in blood and aphorisms does not want to be read, he wants to be learned by heart.

Don’t exercise your freedom of speech until you have exercised your freedom of thought.

Thus, from admiration of one wise and innocent child, and from a misheard remark, the process that not even Aristotle could codify was triggered. Where do you get your ideas? I purposely mishear things.

I discovered … that a novel has nothing to do with words in the first instance. Writing a novel is a cosmological matter, like the story told by Genesis (we all have to choose our...

When you grow up to be an author and write books, you’ll think you’re making the books up, but they’ll all really be true, somewhere.

I don’t believe any real artists have ever been non-political. They may have been insensitive to this particular plight or insensitive to that, but they were political, because that’s what an artist is―a politician.