I'm an aspiring writer.' I hate that phrase. You're either a writer or you're not.

You can only write what you know if you've lived, otherwise, you'll just be writing words.

What is the essence of the art of writing? Part One: Have something to say. Part Two: Say it well.

If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write.

Sometimes the things in our heads are far worse than anything they could put in books or on film!!

Remember that wasted minute at the start of the day? Hard luck but you'll never find it again.

Many of the characters are fools and they're always playing tricks on meand treating me badly.

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

Sometimes stories cry out to be told in such loud voices that you write them just to shut them up.

When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.

Writing is not about the voices in your head, but the voices that make the great leap to the page.

A good book will pull you in from the beginning and take you on a journey you'll never forget.

Your only responsibility as a writer is to be true to the story that has chosen you as its writer.

[I]t's the child writer who has figured out, early on, that writing is about saving your soul.

Why can't I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply.