A writer needs to ingest love to be passionate. Passion is a metabolite of love, and good writing is an active metabolite of passion.

A writer is simply one who writes words, Even if just 1 person reads it your work, or a 100, or 1million or 100,000 You are a writer.

A writer who can’t use his firsthand experience must turn to secondhand experience, which can lead to thirdhand clichés.

The life of a writer is directed by a mad impulsive muse, that can tell them to cancel all their storyline: a creative divergent devil.

human beings do not perceive things whole; we are not gods but wounded creatures, cracked lenses, capable only of fractured perceptions

Why would anyone pay for writing anymore when there's Facebook and why would anyone pay for music anymore when there's YouTube.

A big enough artist, I say, can eat anything, must eat everything and then alchemize it. Only the feeble writer is afraid of expansion.

The Llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat, with an indolent expression and an undulating throat; like an unsuccessful literary man.

And I've learned to hit the brakes at these kinds of stop signs rather than t-boning a tanker truck filled with 200 proof mediocrity.

Writers, even unpublished writers, have a tendency not to notice what’s going on around them when they are the center of attention.

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

As a writer one is allowed to have conversations with oneself. What is considered sane in writers is made for the rest of the human race.

...people quote proverbs without realizing they're really in awe of the authority of their truth and the power of their expression...

Most days, writing simply requires work-ethic, discipline, clarity, focus, time. Other days...it will demand absolutely everything of you.

All writers are different, each have their own artist way they go about telling a story. The only thing they have in common, is they write.