Dawn is a friend of the muses, even if they aren't awake to appreciate it.

Well, they each seem to do one thing well enough, but fail to realize that literature depends on doing several things well at the same time.

"What's so great about writing?" "You can make anything true."

I spoke fire, laughed smoke, and madness spilled forth from my inspiration.

Good novels are written by people who are not frightened.

The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.

You can't blame a writer for what the characters say.

Dear, I can't write, it's all a fantasy: a kind of circling obsession.

The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly.

One day I'll paint the perfect sunset - - if I can only find the words.

If you would create something, you must be something.

All the things you can talk about in anyone's work are the things that are least important.

But I lie. I embellish. My words are not deep enough. They disguise, they conceal. I will not rest until I have told of my descent into a sensuality which was as dark, as magnificent, as wild, as my...

Everyone doesn't have to do everything... People forget you can also express yourself by what you choose to admire and support. I've had so much pleasure from beautiful and challenging things created...

I promptly forgot about him and prepared a blend of Creativi - Tea, since I had some fantasy role - players coming in for their weekly dungeon crawl, and the DM always wanted a little something extra...

Explore the rugged edge of thought. Like grating a carrot, give the paper the colorful coleslaw of your consciousness.

... perhaps the sweetest moment in writing is the arrival of that idea for a book which never has to be written, which is never sullied with a definite shape, which never needs to be exposed to a less...

If you're a writer, the problem is that, when you try to call a halt to thinking about your novel - in - progress, your imagination still keeps going; you can't shut it off.

The overplanners just take longer to be wrong and, when things inevitably go awry, are more crushed by the feeling that they have failed.

What is dollar value but something to amuse people who have no imagination? People who have money and no imagination follow fashion. People who have imagination and no money fashion styles.

The Complete Work is essentially dramatic, though it takes different forms - prose passages in this first volume, poems and philosophies in other volumes. It's the product of the temperament I've been...

So what? All writers are unhinged!

I think someday you're going to be a great writer,

At some time during the process, {of writing} I came up with a therapeutic device. After each draft I would tear up the pages and feed the paper to a worm compost I keep in my garage. A few months...

Not only should you be testing your project as you create it, you must most seriously test your creation as it begins to resemble a final product. So you know what you have - so you can improve it. So...

Sometimes John had recorded new compositions, or lines from his new poems. Sometimes he'd just record a busy night in The Green Man. Sometimes sheep, seals, skylarks, the wind turbine. If Liam were...

Imagination is the gatekeeper of the human soul.

Stay humble; don't interfere; respect your creative genius

Can you draw a picture on the blackboard when somebody doesn't want you to? asked the rooster promptly. Yes, answered Kenny, if you write them a very nice poem. What is an only goat? A lonely goat,...

Try saying this: "I enjoy my creativity." And when you say it, be sure to actually mean it. For one thing, it will freak people out. I believe that enjoying your work with all your heart is the only...