Are infinite possibilities a storyteller's worst enemy or best friend? I'd say a bit of both really and one must be grateful for this paradox.

The secret of being a successful writer is - - write. Every writer deserves that chance.

Look at yourself from space! You are very little, you are so tiny! But there is something big in you: Your great ideas! Even from space, they look big because they have the power to change the...

In its essence, a meal is a creative act that has its genesis in the mind of someone who cares enough to plan it, gather ingredients and labor over its creation.

The most mesmerizing of artists is always like one who was merely drawing in the sand and people came to watch.

I sometimes shock the people around me with how I see things. I come up with very unique solutions to things. As I can picture things in my mind and move them around to design and understand them.

To be perfectly honest, I enjoy thinking dangerously

done comma, walking/talking, art, cookery. scouts then wrote two books, asked for help, gave a book to HRH Princess Anne, tried publisher, got another DEGREE, now Google Gillian Mk2, what else can I...

If you look a word up in the dictionary and twenty minutes later you're still wandering around in the dictionary, you probably have the most basic equipment you need to be a poet.

I want to assure you with all earnestness, that no writing is a waste of time, — no creative work where the feelings, the imagination, the intelligence must work. With every sentence you write, you...

Writers and other artists are mostly just historians, produced by nature to describe, decipher and thus historically represent the universe.

For the real writers, every decision is either write or wrong.

The muse is fickle; ergo, when she knocks, ANSWER! It may take a while, but trust me, she WILL knock. In the meantime, keep your ear pressed firmly to the door.

My Characters Tell ME Where THEY Want to Go.

don't be like so many writers, don't be like so many thousands of people who call themselves writers, don't be dull and boring and pretentious, don't be consumed with self-love. the libraries of the...

Don't waste inspiration

The thing you are most afraid to write—write that - advice to young writers

It is always necessary to acknowledge creative injuries and grieve them. Otherwise, they become creative scar tissue and block your growth.

You create your own masterpiece as your actions draw pictures of your life canvas.

Reality cannot breathe without imagination.

Your imagination is a gift, unwrap it.

Without an imagination we would be irreparably shackled to what is, and never be released to what could be.

Imagination is by definition, a complex system.

We are the ink that gives the white page a meaning.

Give me something in between the spectrums of light, darkness and sound and most days I will create something out of it for you.

Very early on, near the beginning of my writing life, I came to believe that I had to seize on some object outside of literature. Writing as a stylistic exercise seemed barren to me. Poetry as the art...

The creative mind plays with the object it loves.

I create, therefore I am.

The art of writing is not as solitary as one might think. When it finally dawns on us one day that our task as writers is to share what we know of the human spirit, we suddenly discover that we were...

the battle for our culture must be waged at the level of the imagination