An inspirational writer's life is an open book that never shuts. Choose your words carefully.

I'm a novelist by trade and my job is to write a story rather than reconstruct actual events.

A writer always begins by being too complicated—he’s playing at several games at once.

Yesterday is gone, and tomorrow is beyond our reach. The best time to write is now, in the present.

Writers are creatures of habit, as are humans, but writers aren’t necessarily human, are they?

A friend worth knowing tolerates your flaws while a friend worth keeping loves you in spite of them.

People tell me I look like my father. I've never seen my dad, so does that mean I look invisible?

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

There is a reason why I am a writer... sometimes it is the only way you can get people to listen to you!

As an author, I like self-help, because clapping can be done by myself, for myself. I should buy gloves.

There is no good or bad author; there is only one kind of an author, that who connects with the readers.

Life is so beautiful and so short that anything that makes me feel less than too much is nothing at all.

For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life.

The nastiest kind of writer is a ghostwriter, who bears people’s children in their body for money.

Passionate attraction to someone of the opposite sex will make a hero or a fool of a novelist each time.