The writer in her went silent and hid when her revealing words were wide-spread read.

Once you've started writing, it's like you've opened up Pandora's box.

...perhaps in actions I'm less of a man - but, oh the words - such lovely words...

Let your story grow. Let it surprise you, and it will certainly surprise your readers.

Menjadi penulis itu tak cukup sekadar menjelma kutubuku, tetapi jadilah predator buku!

The writing has a meaning only if it is penned down with the heart's deep feeling.

The greatest tribute one can give to a writer is that it is simply enough to read him.

The real novelist, the perfectly simple human being, could go on, indefinitely imaging.

Sometimes I create a character from a scrap - a mere mention that has been left behind.

Advice for a long and happy life - never tell a writer you have fixed their work. Ever.

Who thought up the dumb idea to arrange the memoir section in the bookstore by subject?

If you were waiting for a sign that you’re meant to be a writer…THIS IS IT.

A writer travels through the heart again and again to express the beauty of its contents.

Any writer who puts his words and thoughts out into the public is going to be criticized.

What a writer brought to a book didn't matter as much as what the reader contributed.