I write because my imagination won’t let me quit. And because I want to read what I wrote and share what I’ve written.

I can’t write anymore. My words are paper airplanes tenuously gliding towards the dust. The wonder of the Phoenicians, which throughout the latter part of this entry I have not fully comprehended, is getting vaguer...

Books allow one to jump into another person’s imagination while also exploring their own!

The only good teachers for you are those friends who love you, who think you are interesting, or very important, or wonderfully funny; whose attitude is:”Tell me more. Tell me all you can. I want...

The pen, a double-edged mystery: cuts the writer, heals the reader.

The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.

J. R. R. Tolkien, the near-universally-hailed father of modern epic fantasy, crafted his magnum opus The Lord of the Rings to explore the forces of creation as he saw them: God and country, race and...

Not every owner of a qualified high-qualified for the position, and not every man did not have the opportunity to obtain higher qualification to the circumstances of what that he is ignorant or not fit...

My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water.

Writing is a continuous discovery – a learning process.

I am simply impressed by the unexpected insights which shower down on me when my job is to imagine, as contrasted with the woodenly familiar ideas which clutter my desk when my job is to...

Good horror offers a sense of an upended, lawless world and that’s appealing to anyone who grew up feeling like an outsider.

As long as music survives, poetry will never die.

He wasn’t, I realized when I read those scenes concerning Blair and myself, close to any of us– except of course to Blair, and really not even to her. He was simply someone who floated...

One of the dumbest things you were ever taught was to write what you know. Because what you know is usually dull. Remember when you first wanted to be a writer? Eight or ten years...

Be thankful for the people who have stood by you and cheered you on, but don’t forget to be thankful for the ones that said it could not be done. Writing a book is no...

You can only write regularly if you’re willing to write badly. You can’t write regularly and well. One should accept bad writing as a way of priming the pump, a warm-up exercise that allows you...

The statement ‘There is nothing more American than an Indian’ happens to be a multidimensional paradox. Try and not say too many of those. That might open your mind to ideas that could cause sanity...

it’s good for you to write down your thoughts. It’stherapeutic because it forces you to slow down and think aboutlife.

English teachers, workshops, and myths try to make writers slow down. We are the ONLY ART on the planet that tells young artists to not practice and do less to get better. Head-shaking in its...

I watched my life as if it were happening to someone else. My son died. And I was hurt, but I watched my hurt, and even relished it, a little, for now I could write...

Look at that,” he said. “How the ink bleeds.” He loved the way it looked, to write on a thick pillow of the pad, the way the thicker width of paper underneath was softer and...

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Writing and reading are the only ways to find your voice. It won’t magically burst forth in your poems the next time you sit down to write, or the next; but little by little, as...

To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength.

That is the mystery about writing: it comes out of afflictions, out of the gouged times, when the heart is cut open.

The better you know someone, the less well you often see them (and the less well they can therefore be transferred into fiction). They may be so close as to be out of focus, and...

They had created themselves together, and they always saw themselves, their youth, their love, their lost youth and lost love, their failures and memories, as a sort of living fiction.

For some, like me, writing comes at a price. My best creations were written while I was emotionally ripped open. I’ve spent some scenes so mentally self-exposed that I could barely see what I was...

What is the essence of the art of writing? Part One: Have something to say. Part Two: Say it well.

The pages of a book are given life only as they are opened

An Authorpreneur focuses on establishing one’s brand to the consumer using different avenues to promote their work.

They must talk to each other directly, Ender, mind to mind. What one thinks, another can also think; what one remembers, another can also re-member. Why would they ever develop language? Why would they ever...

Some writers might tell you that writing is like a piece of magic – a process of creating something out of nothing, and I guess I used to think about it that way too a...

Real suspense comes with moral dilemma and the courage to make and act upon choices. False suspense comes from the accidental and meaningless occurrence of one damned thing after another.

Amazing, really, to think of what a man could achieve with the simple ability to put pen to paper and spin a decent yarn.

For people never say anything the same way twice; no two of them ever say it the same. The greatest imaginative writer that ever brooded in a lavender robe and a mellowed briar in his...

Live inside your stories, yes, but do not hide behind them.

Write when you least feel like it,Because that’s when you write best.

I write for the same reason I breathe – because if I didn’t, I would die.

Sebuah cerpen yang tidak bagus, tetapi siap adalah lebih baik daripada sebuah cerpen yang kononnya bagus, tetapi tidak siap-siap.

…I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old lady, I don’t know so well what I think until I see what I say; then I have to say it again.

Replace your old books with the book you’ve always wanted to write.

In a way, I was safe writing

Even the best cook can’t make chicken soup out of his own feet. There aren’t so terribly many ingredients in anyone’s life, less meat than there is on a sparrow. The average person could come...

There’s a much different message received, when the signs written in the flesh were not in your hand writing.

End with an image and don’t explain.

You have described only too well,” replied the Master, “where the difficulty lies…The right shot at the right moment does not come because you do not let go of yourself. You…brace yourself for failure. So...

All writing is discipline, but screenwriting is a drill sergeant.

Without imagination, writing is a stack of lumber, a sack of nails, and a locked tool shed.