You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I'll rise.
If I wish to compose or write or pray or preach well, I must be angry. Then all the blood in my veins is stirred, and my understanding is sharpened.
Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.
I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.
Writing is a lonely job. Having someone who believes in you makes a lot if difference. They don't have to makes speeches. Just believing is usually enough.
When I write, I feel like an armless leg less man with a crayon in his mouth.
The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.
Writer's block' is just a fancy way of saying 'I don't feel like doing any work today.
[I]f the writer does his job right, what he basically does is remind the reader of how smart the reader is.
Good ideas stay with you until you eventually write the story.
I do not say words, which you want to hear.The words just told me, to write them down.
I write about romance and passion to savour love twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
Falling in love with a writer is a dangerous thing, isn't it? The only thing you get out of it sometimes is immortality.
Ideally, love is unconditional; practically, it is more often the opposite.
True writers know that writing is not something they feel required to do,or to make a living they must do, it is quite frankly like breathing. Somecan breathe often and fluently, some short breaths, some a long exhaleand for many of us it is the patient steady breathing surrounding life.
...perhaps in actions I'm less of a man - but, oh the words - such lovely words...
He offered her power, money, status...a giant prison, all in exchange for only...her soul.
Like most novelists, I like to do exactly the opposite of what I'm told. It's in my nature as a novelist. Novelists can't trust anything they haven't seen with their own eyes or touched with their own hands. (Jerusalem Prize acceptance speech, JERUSALEM POST, Feb. 15, 2009)
writing is like being in love. You never get better at it or learn more about it. The day you think you do is the day you lose it. Robert Frost called his work a lover's quarrel with the world. It's ongoing. It has neither a beginning nor an end. You don't have to worry about learning things. The fire of one's art burns all the impurities from the vessel that contains it.
Stories of Fantasy are nothing more than the retelling of our own triumphs and sad, sad tragedies ... Tod LangleyI have that painted on my office wall and love to stare at it.
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