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.

Hell man, I know very well you didn’t come to me only to want to become a writer, and after all what do I really know about it except that you’ve got to stick to...

I went on writing reviews for the newspaper, and critical articles crying out for a different approach to culture, as even the most inattentive reader could hardly fail to notice if he scratched the surface...

I’ve found the best way to revise your own work is to pretend that somebody else wrote it and then to rip the living shit out of it.

If you’re just starting out as a writer, you could do worse than strip your television’s electric plug-wire, wrap a spike around it, and then stick it back into the wall. See what blows, and...

Her maktul katilinde yaşamaya devam eder.

Para mim cada poema é um mundo próprio, um habitat bizarro de memórias, pessoas, sentimentos, conclusões. Cada verso é um retrato, um objecto precioso, um pedaço que recolho do mundo e visto com palavras. Devolver...

Now writing is just working your way toward the border that the innermost secret draws around itself, and to cross that line would mean self-destruction. But writing is also an attempt to respect the borderline...

Symbolism exists to adorn and enrich, not to create an artificial sense of profundity.

Writing is like cooking. You toss in a bunch of ingredients and hope the combination of flavors will appeal to someone’s taste.

They are fair garments, and the web is good, for it was made in this land. They are elvish robes certainly, if that is what you mean. Leaf and branch, water and stone: they have...

All my life and all my experience, the events that have befallen me, the people I have known, all my memories, dreams, fantasies, everything I have ever read, all of that has been chucked onto...

Saber fer les coses que no es volen fer ajuda a fer bé les coses que es volen fer

Some things are just like riding a bicycle; you jump on, pedal, and hope you don’t fall.

The Power of the Pen is not in the color of ink it spills; but the power of the word it spells

I hope to turn my reader into the quiet person in the corner who, even when no one is telling them anything, sees everything.

sometimes i wake upin the middleof the nightand findpoetry splatteredall over my bed.

When I started to learn how to read, I discovered the same kind of power. I could create an environment that I didn’t have, and I could order this environment in the way that I...

poetry. i am not writing it.(make way for me please)it is my skin. dripping with light.

It is not lack of ability, but lack of motivation, lack of focus, and lack of self-confidence that prevents most aspiring authors from finishing what they started.

I’ve learned to let my characters speak and act the way they want to! I’ve tried to interfere but they just get angry at me and throw big rocks.

I would like to carve my novel in a piece of wood. My characters—I would like to have them heavier, more three-dimensional … My characters have a profession, have characteristics; you know their age, their...

Mark to yourself the gradual way in which you have been prepared for, and are now led by an irresistible necessity to enter upon your great labour.

Editing one’s writing is as easy as lighting a match while riding a bicycle.

A lot of people who read my novel ‘Smog City’ ask me why I never killed off either of the two main characters. To be honest, it’s because I’ve given them life. Not literally of...

After the first glass of vodkayou can accept just about anythingof life even your own mysteriousnessyou think it is nice that a boxof matches is purple and brown and is called La Petite and comes...

These scenes, by the way, are not altogether a literary device – a means of summing up and making a knot of innumerable little threads. Innumerable threads were there; still, if I stopped to disentangle,...

One day, I shall explode like an artillery shell and all my bits will be found on the writing table.

I’m a novelist by trade and my job is to write a story rather than reconstruct actual events.

Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head.

Disappearing Act”)

Writers are often given the gift of being spectacularly unhappy, so that they can record the full depth of feeling.

For a novelist, the gaps in a story are as intriguing as material that still exists.

All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know

I have always been jealous of artists. The smell of the studio, the names of the various tools, the look of a half-finished canvas all shout of creation. What do writers have in comparison? Only...

To breathe is to live, but to write unimpeded is to breathe eternal.

Make today the day you begin that awesome idea you have had for years. Now go, write this book, and remember that today is an important day in history.

I go on writing so that I will always have something to read.

Writers are like supreme beings. We can create worlds in a matter of days and we can destroy them just as fast.