Good style happens in one of two ways: the writer either has an inborn talent or is willing to work herself to death to get it.

...it's not the stories - it's the pain and the joy and the people who stay with you long after the stories are told ...

Most people don't have real friends. You have people in your life waiting for opportunities to see what YOU can do for them.

When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlighenment and comfort at top speed

In my imagination, the Editor meditated in a mountain-cave, espoused the rules of grammar, and frowned upon speculative fiction.

Being able to read well in public and talk about your work in an engaging fashion is part of most writers' job specification.

...she said all writers were prima donnas, drunks, social misfits, pompous, or depressed. Brilliant, maybe, but completely crazy.

No.'It's not a bad word. And it is very important to use at times. Practice saying it in the mirror. It's empowering.

If writers write, then rangers range. And I’d like to wake up every morning and be a mother, so I could eat my own clothes.

Good horror offers a sense of an upended, lawless world and that’s appealing to anyone who grew up feeling like an outsider.

He wastes his time over his writing, trying to accomplish what geniuses and rare men with college educations sometimes accomplish.

It's not that [writers] are pompous jerks. We are insecure. We feel like we're fading away in this vast sea of scriveners.

I now understand that writing fiction was a seed planted in my soul, though I would not be ready to grow that seed for a long time.

I find that is the best way to write during emotional scenes...put yourself and your emotions in every single word.-Nina Jean Slack

The centuries are sprinkled with rare magicwith divine creatureswho help us get past the common and extraordinary ills that beset us