writers-on-writing

Become my muse. And let me paint you with my words...

I am no longer a writer. Just an emotion. An emotion that is unable to stay within its own body, and is therefore, trying to make its way into yours.

Writing is about taking everyday observations, things which people see almost every day of their lives, and yet bringing it to their attention for the very first time.

Literature sustains life because it captures death in its forward march. Clickety-clickety-clack, the wheels go round and round ...

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.

A chronic poet should always be an inveterate nature-lover.

A great writer picks up on those things that matter. It__ almost like their radar is attuned to the most significant moments.

The show must go on, and so must The Book.

Writing for the sake of writing, writing that draws its credibility from its very existence, is a foreign idea to most Americans. As a culture, we want cash on the barrel head. We want writing to earn dollars and sense so that it makes sense to us. We have a conviction__hich is naive and misplaced__hat being published has to do with being __ood_ while not being published has to do with being __mateur._ ...__id you write today?___es.___hen you__e a writer today.__t would be lovely if being a writer were a permanent state that we could attain to. It__ not, or if it is, the permanence comes posthumously.A page at a time, a day at a time, is the way we must live our writing lives. Credibility lies in the act of writing. That is where the dignity is. That is where the final __redit_ must come from.

The last thing we discover in composing a work is what to put down first.

The sooner you finish procrastinating, the sooner you can get back to your art.

If your looking to write a book, your creativity, originality and simplicity is what will distinguish you.

Writer's block is just another name for fear.

Words are the residue that I was there, that I loved my wife, that I kissed my children goodnight, that I sacrificed my life for them. Words are a curse. Life is a curse. Words escape life. Life escapes words. What in God's name am I? How does someone name a God? What is it to name yourself?

We can create transcending stories for readers and for us. Creativity is a double edge sword, which can kill the writer.

There's still too much energy leftover at this tomb-desk, on Broadway, when I am semi-asleep at night in our bedroom, struggling to get a good night's rest. There's an overflow of loin energy. It spills out from my pores as if I were a cracked drum of reacting chemicals. I need to work to expend this excess energy in words, stories and books....My mind is a body that's a mind.

The greatest moments of creativity come in absolute solitude, when one__ mind is free from distraction and able to probe the depths of the impossible.