There are times you wake up in the middle of the night, fingers hit the keyboard and you allow words to flow. That is a writer.

People approach writers, assuming we pull a perfect text out of our nose each time (well spelled). Spelling is the least of it.

Writing is a little bit like prostitution. First you do it for love. Then you do it for a few friends. Then you do it for money.

My wishes before I die, to fulfill my mission on earth; The writing of my life stories to inspired present and future generations.

Maybe I write because I’ve learned to show certain parts of my heart on the page that I still struggle to capture in speech.

I consider whoever my words land on to be my target, that’s why I like flash fiction, it’s a lot like using a shotgun.

Literature sustains life because it captures death in its forward march. Clickety-clickety-clack, the wheels go round and round ...

You can be a writer who doesn't read everyday. But you're not fooling anyone. It shows, rather embarrassingly, in your work.

A great writer picks up on those things that matter. It’s almost like their radar is attuned to the most significant moments.

Writers are like actors too. For every story we create, we must get under the skin of the characters and role play with our writing.

In the act of creation, as in all the arts, the soul should be felt in the face and the fingers and the tongue, even in the cavities.

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

Always being myself and my salve, which is life. I’m not lonely, if that’s what it seems like. Always writing things down.

I have found that a writer is formed not so much by their experiences but by the way in which they view and capture those experiences.

It seemed to me then that to have published a book - any kind of book - would be the greatest possible happiness I could ask from life.