If a story is in you, it has to come out.

I’ve been writing for about eleven years. I went from elfish to elephantish, and in another eleven years I hope to be Levin.

I have no doubt at all the Devil grins,As seas of ink I spatter. Ye gods, forgive my “literary” sins –The other kind don’t matter.

When a writer has deep thoughts, I expect him to also have a deep voice. And if he doesn’t, he should remain silent and let his writer’s voice do all the speaking for him.

It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous.

The things that the novel does not say are necessarily more numerous than those it does say and only a special halo around what is written can give the illusion that you are reading also...

The author should die once he has finished writing. So as not to trouble the path of the text.

Reading haiku is as much an art as writing it. The reader needs to pause and listen to the silences, to feel the spaces between the words, and to journey into the depths of many...

I never waited for my Irish Cream coffee to be the right temperature, with a storm happening outside and my fireplace crackling … I wrote every day, at home, in the office, whether I felt...

In most books, the I, or first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained; that, in respect to egotism, is the main difference. We commonly do not remember that it is, after all,...

Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.

Great work doesn’t make me jealous; it makes me want to work.

Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.

Every work cancels the dark. Every work is a hymn from the other side of memory to a memory that is spellbound. Beauty is death’s gift to vulgar life so that it can live in...

Bad writing is more than a matter of shit syntax and faulty observation; bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal to tell stories about what people actually do― to face the fact, let us...

One can fight money only with money! from my Tale Of The Rock Pieces.

I am, when you stop to think of it, a member of a fairly select group: the final handful of American novelists who learned to read and write before they learned to eat a daily...

(…) às vezes não se tem o que escrever mesmo quando se tem o que falar.

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

Entangled cobwebs of my mind keep me awake at night! Need to get back to sm serious writing again!

We need to boost each other to get to the top. It is much more effective than stepping on each other.

Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race

You’re miserable, edgy and tired. You’re in the perfect mood for journalism.

Words themselves are all the ghosts we need.

When you write, you want to get rid of the world, do you not? Of coarse you do. When you’re writing, you’re creating your own worlds.

[I]f a book is well written, I always find it too short.

i writebecauseit is the only wayi can reach you.

Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.

Tolkien, who created this marvellous vehicle, doesn’t go anywhere in it. He just sits where he is. What I mean by that is that he always seems to be looking backwards, to a greater and...

I write weird stories. I don’t know why I like weirdness so much. Myself, I’m a very realistic person. I don’t trust anything New Age — or reincarnation, dreams, Tarot, horoscopes. I don’t trust anything...

Writing is a lot like making soup. My subconscious cooks the idea, but I have to sit down at the computer to pour it out.

I am happiest sitting against a tree, with my notebook or sketchpad on my knee, capturing the moment.

All the time she writing the world had continued.

Proper writing ink comes in a bottle, can be swirled like brandy in a glass, and smells like apple blossom after rain.

I maintain that cultural sensitivity should be replaced by cultural awareness. Awareness implies research, consideration, thought, and judiciousness….Sensitivity denies equal access to language. It segregates and censors based on the background of the writer rather...

Not all of Derrida’s writing is to everyone’s taste. He had an irritating habit of overusing the rhetorical question, which lends itself easily to parody: ‘What is it, to speak? How can I even speak...

If we can’t write diversity into sci-fi, then what’s the point? You don’t create new worlds to give them all the same limits of the old ones.

What we need in literature today are vast philosophic horizons; we need the most ultimate, the most fearsome, the most fearless ‘Why?’ and ‘What next?'(“Literature, Revolution, and Entropy”)

If we don’t value the people who inspire us (and money is one mark of that) then what kind of culture are we building?

Once, Turner had himself lashed to the mast of a ship for several hours, during a furious storm, so that he could later paint the storm. Obviously, it was not the storm itself that Turner...

Formerly I believed books were made like this: a poet came, lightly opened his lips, and the inspired fool burst into song – if you please! But it seems, before they can launch a song,...

We can learn so much looking outside our core field of expertise.

It is a delicious thing to write, to be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating. Today, for instance, as man and woman, both lover and mistress, I...

Writing is not only a reflection of what one thinks and feels but a rope one weaves with words that can lower you below or hoist you above the surface of your life, enabling you...

I write to believe in goodness.

There is a long time in me between knowing and telling.

Flow is something the reader experiences, not the writer.

If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed.

By the end, you should be inside your character, actually operating from within somebody else, and knowing him pretty well, as that person knows himself or herself. You’re sort of a predator, an invader of...

Reading is a collaboration between the writer and reader. Both parties must keep that in mind when dealing with a work of fiction.”{Guy Gavriel Kay}