Writing is like bungee jumping for the soul…you take a deep breath, plunge into the abyss and hope the rope tethering you to the real world doesn’t snap.

I wasn’t born to cook or clean,but to read and write,if you don’t like me the way I am,then go fly a kite.

Use what you stand for and what you oppose as a foundation to write great content that resonates with readers and creates a ripple effect.

Step out from behind the words. When you’re a writer you can imagine that the words speak for you and are you, but they’re not. You are this living breathing bad hair day kind of...

Good writing ain’t necessarily good reading.

If you show someone something you’ve written, you give them a sharpened stake, lie down in your coffin, and say, ‘When you’re ready’.

I start with a tingle, a kind of feeling of the story I will write. Then come the characters, and they take over, they make the story.

If I’m going to sing like someone else, then I don’t need to sing at all.

The best way to show people true things is from a direction that they had not imagined the truth coming.

Failing to writer everyday doesn’t mean that you’ve given up, though a chapter a day – keeps writers block away!

But the truth is, it’s not the idea, it’s never the idea, it’s always what you do with it.”(Online journal entry for January 31, 2009)

… The Book is more important than your plans for it. You have to go with what works for The Book ~ if your ideas appear hollow or forced when they are put on paper,...

Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it...

Why aren’t the thinks I’m thinking getting thunk on the page any faster?!? (from Stop Lying: Writing Is Hard on ChristopherLehman.com)

Writing is the voice of the heart’ Julia Suzuki

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right-about-face which turns us...

What is the easiest, the most comfortable thing for a writer to do? To congratulate the society in which he lives: to admire its biceps, applaud its progress, tease it endearingly about its follies.

The large, gaping flaws in the construction of the stories–mad wives in the attic, strange apparitions in Belgium–are a representation of the life she could not face; these gothic subterfuges represent the mind at a...

I am simply not interested, at this point, in creating narrative scenes between characters.

Certainly, I want to capture the reader’s attention from the beginning and hold it until the end: that is half the purpose of my art. The other half must be to tell my story in...

If you want to be a successful writer you have to put your butt in the chair and your fingers on the keyboard and put words on the page. Even shitty words are better than...

Writer’s block is just a symptom of feeling like you have nothing to say, combined with the rather weird idea that you should feel the need to say something. Why? If you have something to...

A childhood filled with adventures, happiness and unabated love.If only I could remember …

Your audience is your adversary. If you don’t have one get one – imagine it. Imagine it now. To whom is your story addressed and why? Audience is always a creative act of the imagination....

Writing is the geometry of the soul.

I swooned again – I had that moment of falling in love with reading again.

A book, a true book, is the writer’s confessional. For, whether he would have it so or not, he is betrayed, directly or indirectly, by his characters, into presenting publicly his innermost feelings.

You know you are a writer when characters inside your brain keep demanding, ‘This is my story! Now tell it or I will never leave you alone!

Though it’s true that (dictionary-maker Samuel) Johnson sometimes seem to feel that the language was in decline, he didn’t rail against it with (Jonathan) Swift’s anger. Instead, he hoped the example of his dictionary would...

No one can tell you what you can and cannot put in your book. So be brave and just write!

You’ve got to be smart enough to write and stupid enough not to think about all the things that might go wrong.

At night, when the objective world has slunk back into its cavern and left dreamers to their own, there come inspirations and capabilities impossible at any less magical and quiet hour. No one knows whether...

Each time I write, I reaffirm my soul.

Books are like horcruxes–without all the evil–because a piece of the author goes into each one.

If I only had one reader in my entire life, that reader would be all that I needed to continue writing.

The survival of poor opinions can make a thinker feel as though he is failing humanity.

Handling and use by able minds give value to a language, not so much by innovating as by filling it out with more vigorous and varied services, by stretching and bending it.

L’editore mandò cento copie del volume, per tutto compenso dell’opera: il valore non superava quello dell’olio e del vino rubati in cantina; e il grosso pacco piombò in casa come un bolide sconquassatore. La madre...

To look at the work of your peers, and learn how to explain with kindness and precision, the nature of their mistakes is, in fact, how you learn to diagnose your own work.

Oh words, what crimes are committed in your name?~Jack or The Submission

To labor in the arts for any reason other than love is prostitution.

Sweep my dreams not beneath my feet. Be somewhere that my steps won’t meet. Breaking the broom isn’t a must. Don’t mistake unmoved dreams for dust

If by any chance a playwright wishes to express a political opinion or a moral opinion or a philosophy, he must be a good enough craftsman to do it with so much spice of entertainment...

Writing is turning one’s worst moments into money.

I love snowflakes simply for the reason that each one is unique; nonidentical to zillions of crystalized counterparts. It’s a difficult notion to wrap your brain around, and yet it reminds me that amidst the...

Read! Write! Imagine! Create! Love! Live!

I love writing poetry because it’s pretty. I love writing pretty.

I wisely started with a map.

When I finally find that one willing agent, I’ll have found my prize in the Cracker Jack box.

Good writing just isn’t that common.