writers-life

No amount of therapy can replace the joy of revenge writing.

Changing imagination into fiction is what I love to do.

Each night, I close my eyes and dream. In the morning, I open my eyes again, but the dreaming doesn't stop.

I have written until I fell asleep with my computer on my lap. That can't be normal.

Me to Comma: I will never get use to you wanting to butt your way into my sentences -- even if you're right.

It's hard to be a dreamer sometimes. I'm tired.

I know it's difficult in the beginning. But, listen. If you have the impulse to write, do yourself a favor, do the world a favor, and write.

Meeting writers is always so disappointing. I got over wanting to meet live writers quite a long time ago. There is this terrific book that has changed your life, and then you meet the author, and he has shifty eyes and funny shoes and he won't talk about anything except the injustice of the United States income tax structure toward people with fluctuating income, or how to breed Black Angus cows, or something.

I love Edit. He gives me tons of second chances to make things just right between us.

Grammar, you're the pickiest noun I know.

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

The defining lines of reality have always been a bit blurred for me.

I before E except after C. Weird?By rebelling against the rules the word itself denotes its very meaning: of strange or extraordinary character, odd, fantastic.I think all writers are weird.

Replace your old books with the book you've always wanted to write.

Writing is a lonely business, which if allowed publicity and socializing it might deteriorate. Supportive people understand the need of a writer to withdraw to the solitude of oneself.

Never be afraid to write what you believe. If the message speaks the truth, others will fear your words for you.

The best writers tend to look the roughest in photos. At least that's the excuse I use for why I look so bad in mine.

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