One of Scotland's most important cultural exports - stories.

Writer's block is caused by forcing your will on the Divine.

My ideas are a shapeless mass that my writing molds into beauty.

That's okay," I said. "We're writers. We make things up.

Write a page a day and you'll have a complete novel in year.

We can learn so much looking outside our core field of expertise.

Negative experiences repeat as long as they remain useful to you.

The more you leave out, the more you highlight what you leave in.

If we are the trees, words are our roots; and we grow as we write

Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.

Bootlicking is only a way to get published, not to become a write

The most difficult thing about writing; is writing the first line.

Crippled and crazy, we hobble toward the finish line, pen in hand.

Writers were a strange sort; I knew that much from the newspapers.

She had words in her heart which she released thru her fingertips.