#Writer

"When you write about what you dream, you become a writer.When you dream about what you write, you become haunted by a curse."

"All you have to do is put one word after another, and remember how great it feels to be a writer."

"If you’re going to hang around and watch me write, you might as well have a noose around your neck. Would you mind if I kicked the chair out from under your feet? You’re standing on my only place to sit."

"Excuse me, I feel interrupted and I think I've overdose from the idea of loving you."

"We as authors sign a pact with our readers; they'll go on reading because they trust us to play fair with them and deliver what we've promised."

"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."

"Words are magic. They have the power to hurt and to heal, and even withholding them has the power to hurt and to heal. What else has as much potency in its absence and can do without doing? What I mean is, even when you don’t say anything, you are communicating as effectively as if you’d spoken."

"People tell me I look like my father. I've never seen my dad, so does that mean I look invisible?"

"If I lived a million lives, I would've felt a million feelings and I still would've fallen a million times for you."

"Why do people always expect authors to answer questions? I am an author because I want to ask questions. If I had answers, I'd be a politician."

"It was never about the world being too big, it was more like she was too much for the world to handle."

"I know the X’s and O’s of football. I just don’t know the other 24 letters. And as a writer, this bothers me."

"Be a great writer when you write your life's song."

"My writing has appeared in the New Yorker and The Atlantic Monthly, though whenever the newsstand guy catches me scribbling my poetry in them, he always comes along later and erases it."

"Success comes to a writer as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed."

"New Year - a new chapter, new verse, or just the same old story ? Ultimately we write it. The choice is ours."

"We swallowed the chaos because we knew we didn't want to be ordinary."

"I find Bukowski to be so edgy, gritty, and daring that he oozes romance, and if couples read him in bed they would appreciate what they have."

"Since I became a knitting humor writer, I seem to be understood a little better - at least for the purposes of social discourse."

"Spelling Bees are useless and unnecessary competitions. Before Microsoft Word and Google, Spelling Bees had value, but now they are all superflewus."