authors

Writers possess magic. It's in their w

If you cannot judge a book by its cover, surely we should not judge an author by one book alone?

By their very nature, idiots do not have the intellectual capacity to identify genius. All that idiots are mentally equipped to recognize are other idiots.

Knowing that others want to read my writing is the greatest inspiration to write.

Copywriters, journalists, mainstream authors, ghostwriters, bloggers and advertising creatives have as much right to think of themselves as good writers as academics, poets, or literary novelists.

What is hell to a writer? Hell is being too busy to find the time to write or being unable to find the inspiration. Hell is suddenly finding the words but being away from your notebook or typewriter. Hell is when the verses slip away through your fingers and they never return again.

People don__ read to enlighten themselves or seek to gain some valuable insight into their own psychology. People read to escape.

The word 'NO' is the best motivation there is for the storyteller in you.

There were the usual exhortations to purity _ think of the novel not as your opportunity to get rich or famous but to wrestle, in your own way, with the titans of the form _ exhortations poets don__ have to make, given the economic marginality of the art, an economic marginality that soon all literature will share.

If we didn't read people who were bastards, we'd never read anything. Even the best of us are at least part-time bastards.

Whenever I encounter writer__ block, I stop writing _ with my hands; and I then start writing with my legs.

It__ easy to write a sentence, paragraph, or book. What__ difficult is writing the best sentence, paragraph, or book, you can write.

Certain places seem to exist mainly because someone has written about them.

Say something worthwhile and people will listen.

Authors always carry a means for scribbling and an excuse for pausing, often inopportunely, to record those fleeting sparks of creative fancy that might otherwise vanish like a wisp in the wind if ignored. _Writing is a jealous and needy lover.

Some build their castles 'mid thunderbolts and fireworks. My worlds take shape in silence.

I__ an author. We don__ want to lead. We don__ need to follow. We stay home and make stuff up and write it down and send it out into the world, and get inside people__ heads. Perhaps we change the world and perhaps we don__. We never know. We just make stuff up.

Many believe creativity is mystery, and I always knew that my body is the key.