writing

"Writer's block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol."

"If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy."

"The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one--or both. Usually both."

"You see, in my view a writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, because everything she does is golden. In my view a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway."[Becoming a Writer/ The List, O Magazine, November 2009]"

"When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer."

"Beauty is not who you are on the outside, it is the wisdom and time you gave away to save another struggling soul, like you."

"If a writer falls in love with you, you can never die."

"Don't order any of the faerie food,"said Jace, looking at her over the top of his menu. "It tends to make humans a little crazy. One minute you're munching a faerie plum, the next minute you're running naked down Madison Avenue with antlers on your head. Not,"he added hastily, "that this has ever happened to me."

"The writer can grow as a person or he can shrink. ... His curiosity, his reaction to life must not diminish. The fatal thing is to shrink, to be interested in less, sympathetic to less, desiccating to the point where life itself loses its flavor, and one’s passion for human understanding changes to weariness and distaste."

"We are all pencils in the hand of God."

"After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love, and I was sure this was a very good story although I would not know truly how good until I read it over the next day."

"I write to understand as much as to be understood."

"When you can write music that endures, bravo. Until then, keep quiet and study the work of those who can."

"Writing comes more easily if you have something to say."

"As with all other aspects of the narrative art, you will improve with practice, but practice will never make you perfect. Why should it? What fun would that be?"

"The Sacred and The Scared. Which of these two categories does your love fall under? I should write a love poem on a rolled-up scroll so you’d know which one categorizes mine."

"Language is a finding-place not a hiding place."

"I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out of me with steel pipes."

"You’re not a bad person, you’re just a little bit different and I’m a sucker for that."

"I think I’m mouth blind and that’s why all food tastes bland. The only things that have any flavor are the words I love you."