I suspect that most authors don't really want criticism, not even constructive criticism. They want straight-out, unabashed, unashamed, fulsome, informed, naked praise, arriving by the shipload every...

I learn from everything I do, right and wrong. I think it helps me grow as a writer and a person.

You take a universal concept, something that has been done a million times (because everything has been done a million times), and add a fresh twist to it. Something no one saw coming. But mostly...

I do a lot of rewriting. It's very painful.

Don't be a writer; it's a terrible way to live your life. There's nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you...

Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse.

There's a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises... .If you write for life, you'll work hard; you'll do what's honest,...

There's always new stuff, that's for sure.

Madness is a matter of perspective, little dreamer.

I expect the audience to assume TV is stupid. I accept that it's my job to overcome it.

People who can solve problems in a new way are the innovators.

People wonder why you choose certain subjects to write about. The truth is: you don't really. They choose you

It could be a thousand things, distractions, worries; but very often I think what keeps a writer from finding the words is that she grasps at them too soon, hurries, grabs. She doesn't wait for the...

I cannot find any patience for those people who believe that you start writing when you sit down at your desk and pick up your pen and finish writing when you put down your pen again; a writer is...

The ultimate freedom for creative groups is the freedom to experiment with new ideas. Some skeptics insist that innovation is expensive. In the long run, innovation is cheap. Mediocrity is expensive -...

"I believe that we don't choose our stories," she began, leaning forward. "Our stories choose us." She paused and took a sip of water. Her hand, I noticed was steady.. "And if we don't tell them, then...

Inspiration comes from your writing. Thoughts meander subliminally through our subconscious, at night when we sleep the brain is working. In the act of writing, phrases come out and you think: wow,...

You are not responsible for the reader, you're only responsible for what you are writing.

We are all born artists. The nature generally doesn't discriminate among newborns with respect to art. Yet most of us try very hard as we grow, without knowing, to stop being artists.

Writing the story of their own life allows the author to parse their story into examinable segments while continuing to engage in the act of communion and creation.

Moment of pleasures helps to renew strength and reposition man to creative point

Garbage, in its "worthless" state, is the primary fuel for creativity.

There isn't enough paper in the world to write all the poems you inspire in me.

One of my favourite things about being an author is waking up knowing that there are worlds just waiting to be discovered and created.

I like writing that puts the needle right into the vein. I don't think, when I'm writing, "Tell a good story" or "find a meaning." I'm thinking phrase by phrase, make it tight, make it good. Get the...

A quiet mind allows the artist to tap into the wellspring of Divine Music within.

... for she soars with the wildest hyperbole when not tagging after the most pedestrian dictum.

There is madness in youth, but sometimes a god inspires it.

Poets, with no sponsors, no agenda, are the truest form of freedom today, bleeding out every drop of themselves for the world to either hate or devour.

You can never know enough about your characters