#writers

"All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer."

"My hands could be considered deadly weapons. You see, I write with both of them."

"Love is alive when there's music in your heart."

"A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him."

"great writers are indecent peoplethey live unfairlysaving the best part for paper.good human beings save the worldso that bastards like me can keep creating art,become immortal.if you read this after I am deadit means I made it."

"With my career I want to either make something or make an impact. Writers both make something, and make an impact."

"The text you write must prove to me that it desires me. This proof exists: it is writing. Writing is: the science of the various blisses of language, its Kama Sutra (this science has but one treatise: writing itself)."

"Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river."

"Believe in people, they fly for a day. Teach them to believe in themselves, they soar for a lifetime."

"A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends."

"GIVING - Applied tithing is so rewarding. When you give away your time, talent, and treasures you create a huge shift in your prosperity consciousness. So start where you are as you reach for where it is you want to be."

"If you're silent for a long time, people just arrive in your mind."

"Kind words change the world."

"The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself."

"A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to."

"When is now."

"Writers cannot choose their own mood: with them it is not always hide-tide, nor --thank Heaven!--always Storm."

"Others may write from the head, but he writes from the heart, and the heart will always understand him."

"You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves."

"I do not love men: I love what devours them."