My father is maestro at the Metropolitan church, which gives me an opportunity to write for the church as much as I please. Read Summary
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. Read Summary
Writing is the supreme solace. Read Summary
There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. Read Summary
The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected. Read Summary
The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties. Read Summary
To hold a pen is to be at war. Read Summary
Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works. Read Summary
A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction. Read Summary
Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it. Read Summary
I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat. Read Summary
As you get older you're told to be sensible, but it's important for writing if you're a comic that you're able to still access that childlike thing. Read Summary
I brought all the instincts of a writer with me into the monastery. Read Summary
If you are going to write, say, fantasy - stop reading fantasy. You've already read too much. Read other things; read westerns, read history, read anything that seems interesting, because if you only read fantasy and then you start to write fantasy, all you're going to do is recycle the same old stuff and move it around a bit. Read Summary
My advice is this. For Christ's sake, don't write a book that is suitable for a kid of 12 years old, because the kids who read who are 12 years old are reading books for adults. I read all of the James Bond books when I was about 11, which was approximately the right time to read James Bond books. Read Summary
The only superstition I have is that I must start a new book on the same day that I finish the last one, even if it's just a few notes in a file. I dread not having work in progress. Read Summary
I've lost both parents in the last two years, so you pick up on that stuff. That's the most terrible thing about being an author - standing there at your mother's funeral, but you don't switch the author off. So your own innermost thoughts are grist for the mill. Read Summary
You can't die with an unfinished book. Read Summary
Your feelings so are important to write down, to capture, and to remember because today you're heartbroken, but tomorrow you'll be in love again. Read Summary
And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. Read Summary