authors

Meeting writers is always so disappointing. I got over wanting to meet live writers quite a long time ago. There is this terrific book that has changed your life, and then you meet the author, and he has shifty eyes and funny shoes and he won't talk about anything except the injustice of the United States income tax structure toward people with fluctuating income, or how to breed Black Angus cows, or something.

If insanity is defined as doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results - then success is insanity squared!(2012 SCBWI New Member Conference; Richmond, VA)

In writing, the point is not to manifest or exalt the act of writing, nor is it to pin a subject within language; it is, rather, a question of creating a space into which the writing subject constantly disappears.

Crippled and crazy, we hobble toward the finish line, pen in hand.

I often said that writers are of two types.There is the architect, which is one type. The architect, as if designing a building, lays out the entire novel at a time. He knows how many rooms there will be or what a roof will be made of or how high it will be, or where the plumbing will run and where the electrical outlets will be in its room. All that before he drives the first nail. Everything is there in the blueprint.And then there's the gardener who digs the hole in the ground, puts in the seed and waters it with his blood and sees what comes up. The gardener knows certain things. He's not completely ignorant. He knows whether he planted an oak tree, or corn, or a cauliflower. He has some idea of the shape but a lot of it depends on the wind and the weather and how much blood he gives it and so forth.No one is purely an architect or a gardener in terms of a writer, but many writers tend to one side or the other. I'm very much more a gardener.

What is it about us lady authors and our fascination for the exclamation mark?

A written man is more porous and accessible than a live one.

Since when did books ever solve anything? They only raise more questions than they answer, otherwise they__e just fucking entertainment, and I am not here to fucking entertain you.

I'm not interested in the reviews by critics over the age of 15.

Great writers experience their dreams. They put them on paper, where others can read about them.

An author really ought to have nothing but flowers in the room where he works.

We need to stop trying to get attention by seeing who can scream and cry the loudest. Write something worth reading and your voice will be heard.

Not everyone will like what you write but there's a certain group who'll love what you write. Keep WRITING for them.

Authors are but the instrument to be played. The art is inside them, but many people help create it.

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

A writer is never just looking out of a window or staring into space. They are building a universe to share with the world

That__ another argument for writing: making something that outlasts you.

If you write without reading, you will certainly have too many books without readers.