I found the structure of writing a screenplay harder than the structure of writing an essay. But it was definitely challenging to force myself to sit and write. I'm not used to having to force myself...

If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

When I write, I can shake off all my cares.

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.

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean.

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

Live first, write second.

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

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.

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...

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

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

An author who does not support his or her characters does not deserve the support of readers. EVER!

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...

Writing is just building a new world – one character, one place, one maniac at a time.

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If you want to be a writer - - stop talking about it! Sit down and write. - Jackie Collins

The nastiest kind of writer is a ghostwriter, who bears people's children in their body for money.

Writers do not find subjects; subjects find them.

You might say, as you tirelessly said of my stories, at least of the adjectives, that I should render the evidence, not render the verdict... {"Conveyance: The Story I would Not Want Bill Wilson To...

Action is the pulse of any good story, but the character is the heart. If the action has no consequence to the character, the story loses heart.

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

When I write after dark the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose.

Good novels are written by people who are not frightened.

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

Our hero regains consciousness at the feet of a sarcastic alien.

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

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...