#writers

"It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? For the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone. That is where the writer scores over his fellows: he catches the changes of his mind on the hop."

"Life is magic."

"Every day, live in a way that honors who you are."

"Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us?"

". . . All artists’ work is autobiographical. Any writer’s work is a map of their psyche. You can really see what their concerns are, what their obsessions are, and what interests them."

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

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

"Quiet people have the loudest minds."

"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."

"Transform into your dream."

"I hope I don't write TOO many books! When I look at authors who have written too many books, I wonder to myself "When did they live?"I certainly want to write BECAUSE I live! I know I don't want to write in order to live! My writing is an overflow of the wine glass of my life, not a basin in which I wash out my ideals and expectations."

"In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book."

"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]"

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

"Good ideas stay with you until you eventually write the story."

"Every true writer is like a bird; he repeats the same song, the same theme, all his life. For me, this theme as always been revolt."

"Dance above the surface of the world. Let your thoughts lift you into creativity that is not hampered by opinion."

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

"The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies."

"No book can ever be finished. While working on it we learn just enough to find it immature the moment we turn away from it"