Dostoevsky was made by being sent to Siberia. Writers are forged in injustice as a sword is forged.

Does rejection ever get any easier? Only if we decide not to invest emotion in the dismissal…

The expectation that TV women need to be more likeable than men is bullshit and in need of a change.

Authors are but the instrument to be played. The art is inside them, but many people help create it.

The truth is, we don't have an easy language for emotional life. That's why we have writers.

Aren't we all waiting to be read by someone, praying that they'll tell us that we make sense?

Every word I write is a seed that I may nurture into a small, beautiful poem or a tall, soaring tree.

All writers are waiting for replies. That’s what I’ve learned. Maybe all human beings are

While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy.

Just because everybody uses language, that doesn't mean that they can write even tolerable prose.

All authors go to heaven; we have paid our dues on earth by choosing to the hellish career of writing

Writers of novels live in a strange world where what's made up is as important as what's real.

I do not believe that I should only write about what I know but that I should write also of the other.

Oh, darling, you know we writers must occasionally stretch a point to heighten the dramatic situation.

Writer's block' is just a fancy way of saying 'I don't feel like doing any work today.