Art is a captured emotion. When I say this I mean all artists, whether you are a photographer, a writer, or sculptor, you are trying to capture the way someone or something made you feel....

My new book is going well. It’s practically writing itself! Actually, what I mean is I’m not writing it, my clone is.

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

I’m an open book—an open book I’m still writing and editing. My book is a romance novel, sort of like The Secret.

I do feel that literature should be demystified. What I object to is what is happening in our era: literature is only something you get at school as an assignment. No one reads for fun,...

As Mo had said: writing stories is a kind of magic, too.

I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do–then go ahead and do it with ease. Don’t maul, don’t suffer, don’t groan till the first draft...

I had a dream about you. You were guarding a bridge that I needed to cross. You asked if I had the proper paperwork, and I said I did, but I was just missing one...

Online review sites are the slushpiles of feedback.

It isn’t dying I’m afraid of, it isn’t that at all; I know what it is to die, I’ve died already. It is the endless obliteration, the knowledge that there will never be anything else....

It wasn’t until I was 37 that I grasped the great truth that you’ve got to write your own books and nobody else’s, and then everything followed from there.

You enter a book as if you are setting out on a journey and, if it is a good book, you will be a different person when you reach the end.

That’s what I love most about writers–they’re such lousy actors.

If you schlep a shit job everyday, keep and feed a little secret life–whether it’s writing, art, running, music, your thoughts. It’s yours.

I am always chilled and astonished by the would-be writers who ask me for advice and admit, quite blithely, that they “don’t have time to read.” This is like a guy starting up Mount Everest...

Actors are good liars, writers are good liars with good memories.

Reading takes time, and the glass teat takes too much of it.

Menulis kembali kenangan masa lalu butuh sebuah keberanian.

Remember to have a little faith. When you die, I believe, God isn’t going to ask you what you published. God’s going to ask you what you wrote.

Nothing quite has reality for me till I write it all down–revising and embellishing as I go. I’m always waiting for things to be over so I can get home and commit them to paper.

Very often we write down a sentence too early, then another too late; what we have to do is write it down at the proper time, otherwise it’s lost.

In the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities…it used to be thought a disadvantage to be misunderstood.

The dilemma of the critic has always been that if he knows enough to speak with authority, he knows too much to speak with detachment.”(A Qualified Farewell)

I became a writer so that the voices inside my head would become an acceptable occurrence.

Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive.

If words are to enter men’s minds and bear fruit, they must be the right words shaped cunningly to pass men’s defenses and explode silently and effectually within their minds.

I’ve never yet run out of ideas what to write about… only out of time to write it in.

I do not believe that I should only write about what I know but that I should write also of the other.

An editor doesn’t just read, he reads well, and reading well is a creative, powerful act. The ancients knew this and it frightened them. Mesopotamian society, for instance, did not want great reading from its...

Generally, people who are good at writing letters have no need to write letters. They’ve got plenty of life to lead inside their own context.

In the mid–path of my life, I woke to find myself in a dark wood,’ writes Dante, in The Divine Comedy, beginning a quest that will lead to transformation and redemption. A journey through the...

His indirect way of approaching a character or an action, striving to realize it by surrounding rather than invading it, is ideally suited to the indefinite and suggestive presentation of a ghost story.(introduction to “Sir...

So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say.

There is a fine line between fair criticism and jealous assault.

Marjan. I have told him tales of good women and bad women, strong women and weak women, shy women and bold women, clever women and stupid women, honest women and women who betray. I’m hoping...

Writing isn’t a source of pain. It’s psychic chemotherapy. It reduces your psychological tumors and relieves your pain.

It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? For the moment passes, it is forgotten; the...

Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs.

It seems to me, alas, that if you can so thoroughly dissect your children who are still to be born, you don’t get horny enough to actually to father them.

My urge to write is an urge not to self-expressionism but to self-transcendence. My work is both bigger and smaller than I am.

She felt she had been created by the demands of others, by their insatiable appetite for something beyond ordinary life. They craved a world without death and they had spotted her, in their hunger, like...

Constant work, constant writing and constant revision. The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a sponge. What he takes in he takes in normally the way any person...

Perhaps writing a story or a novel was not something that should be done for money, or to win praise, but for the sheer sensual pleasure of it. I liked that idea. It made me...

I’d never be where I am if more successful writers hadn’t taken an interest in me and done me a good turn.

Writing is how I process the cacophony of each day. Prayer is how God makes sense out of my scribbles.

Ink, a Drug.

I realised early on that being an author is a hugely misunderstood job.

What doesn’t kill us gives us something new to write about.

Realism can break a writer’s heart.

As writers we intend to make a difference, to alter people’s lives for the greater good. . .this is why we write, to have an impact on society, to put a personal stamp on history....