“We learn so that we may succeed, and that goes for anything in life, including the arts. Its a falsity that the moment we earn money or wish to earn money for our creations that it ceases to become...”

“Writing is hardIt gets harder when it becomes your career, your job, because its no longer a hobby, its no longer a manuscript hidden in your desk drawer. It becomes a platform from which the world...”

“It doesnt really matter in the end. Most people I talk to dont take writing seriously. If I tell them Im an aspiring author, they get that yeah right look on their face, which is usually followed b...”

“Thats what all art is for. Your creations can become anything to anyone. Ive realized theres nothing wrong with letting people escape for a few hours. Plus you should hear about all the sex lives I...”

“But for many writers, and to borrow a popular cliché, it’s like getting blood from a stone. You have the want and the desire, but with experience and time, your self-doubt becomes louder and your i...”

“Writing is hard…It gets harder when it becomes your career, your job, because it’s no longer a hobby, it’s no longer a manuscript hidden in your desk drawer. It becomes a platform from which the wo...”

“Mostly, we authors must repeat ourselves - that's the truth. We have two or three great and moving experiences in our lives - experiences so great and moving that it doesn't seem at the time anyone...”

“Five common traits of good writers: (1) They have something to say. (2) They read widely and have done so since childhood. (3) They possess what Isaac Asimov calls a "capacity for clear thought," a...”

“There are lots of guys out there who write a better prose line than I do and who have a better understanding of what people are really like and what humanity is supposed to mean hell, I know that.”

“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”

“Writing is a struggle against silence.”

“Work on a good piece of writing proceeds on three levels: a musical one, where it is composed; an architectural one, where it is constructed; and finally, a textile one, where it is woven.”

“People who think that grammar is just a collection of rules and restrictions are wrong. If you get to like it, grammar reveals the hidden meaning of history, hides disorder and abandonment, links t...”