writing

A writer__ primary goal is to make sense. The bookstore__ is to make cents.

I'm not gonna lie...sometimes this whole writing thing is a lonely business.

I have written until I fell asleep with my computer on my lap. That can't be normal.

Those who can't, and can't teach, translate.(attrib: F.L. Vanderson)

No.'It's not a bad word. And it is very important to use at times. Practice saying it in the mirror. It's empowering.

I became a writer so that the voices inside my head would become an acceptable occurrence.

A writer is merely a reader that had the guts to be read, and, heard.

Give all that you can. No more. No less. Every. Single. Day.

I don't want to write soft, easy fiction; I want to write fiction that challenges.

This is the strange life of books that you enter along as a writer, mapping an unknown territory that arises as you travel. If you succeed in the voyage, others enter after, one at a time, also alone, but in communion with your imagination, traversing your route. Books are solitudes where we meet.

It's hard to be a dreamer sometimes. I'm tired.

Writers begin with a grain of sand, and then create a beach.

I know it's difficult in the beginning. But, listen. If you have the impulse to write, do yourself a favor, do the world a favor, and write.

I don't think writers need to be insane. Just crazy.

Most days, writing simply requires work-ethic, discipline, clarity, focus, time. Other days...it will demand absolutely everything of you.

Perhaps as writers, we too should embrace the concept of wabi-sabi:

The centuries are sprinkled with rare magicwith divine creatureswho help us get past the common and extraordinary ills that beset us

Our business is communication oftentimes through the medium of stories but our capacity has a far greater scope - to entertain certainly, but also to stimulate debate, to mark up changes and differences and that way, to maybe, just now and then, to change the world.