writing-from-the-heart

I also know that not everyone will like what I do, and that there are many people who do love my work, and so I write for them, and for my own pleasure, and try not to brood too much over those who have different tastes. And I have written enough books now that I know the self-doubt and the anxiety are part of the creative process, and drive me to keep trying to do better, and keep me from becoming too cocksure about my writing, which is a form of creative death.

I have wrought my simple planIf I give one hour of joyTo the boy who__ half a man,Or the man who__ half a boy.

What happened was that sometimes I was, from a young age, put in the theater to watch movies because they kept me quiet and they kept me entertained, and they got me out from under the feet of my parents. So from a very early age, I went to the movies and I soon grew to prefer the life of the movies to my own life. The reality that the movies offered was preferable to the reality that I was experiencing. I became a child movie addict. I would go in with great pleasure and I'd never look at what was playing -- what was playing was unimportant. The fact was that I was entering a new world, an environment where not only was it much more attractive than my life was ordinarily, but also I could manipulate it to an extent by coming and going, and by looking at scenes or not, which I could not in my own life. I was subjected to my own domestic life. But I discovered a kind of power at the movies.

The act of putting pen to paper encourages pause for thought, this in turn makes us think more deeply about life, which helps us regain our equilibrium.

What do you do when your head - your imagination is filled with tales to last a hundred lifetimes?You focus on the really good ones!

I live, love and loathe my characters. They stole my mind. They stole my heart.

Indentations on the page, words, my friends, and I will share them with you.

If you're doing it right... you should feel while you're doing it that you're revealing a little too much of yourself.

I__ an observer. I am fascinated by people and how their minds work (and, of course, my own). Why we are the way we are, why we do the things we do _ and that interest drives my writing. I was a physicist before fiction claimed my soul, so I__ an experimenter. I__ open to different ways of thinking. I like exaggerating, making things up. I__ a very open, honest person in life and that__ the way it should be, but when it comes to fiction, I want to pour a few sharp objects into the comfort zone. Our fears are powerful, yet we__e all got a desire to laugh and be entertained. I could have followed the same path I do now as a scientist, examining how the brain works. Ironically I get much more freedom to experiment as a writer. That__ why I love it.

When I write, I write obsessively. I try to pace myself, but some fires are too hot to put out.

Fiction gives us a reach into the lives of individuals that would otherwise be but a closed door. If we are gifted with a desire to tell tales, then we should tell them . . . if only to reach but a few.

Every one of the big breakthroughs in the art of literature have possibly started as what many would call a ludicrous or even laughable idea as the writer occasionally balances a routine piece with an investment in the eccentric and untried. Over time, the reward is usually worth the risk

A real piece of writing is one in which the writer has tried to enrich not only the book, but also his understanding of the words. The words themselves have to be open to new ideas and suggestions, and the writer himself must have the audacity to attempt new things and to risk failure

Writing is more about telling other peoples' stories than your own

Words are the writer's sorcery, our dark arts and our sleight of hand. They're our enchantment and our temptation

When I write, I try to represent the voices of people I've known who had no voice.

No one can tell you what you can and cannot put in your book. So be brave and just write!

There is just too much cruelty, selfishness and corruption in the world not to want to crush the poisonous will of those who cause it by writing about it as powerfully as I can.