280 Quotes About On-writing

I write because I love how I feel to have written.

The free-lance writer is one who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.

I am an author of Christian Fantasy. My first 7 books were Christian Romance, but I came over to the Dark Side when I heard there were cookies.

Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes.

Is imagination dependent upon experience, or is experience influenced by imagination?

After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get a new book out of him each year.

In a way, “failure” is just another word for “the journey,” for not being there yet but on the way. It’s the road we walk on to get wherever it is we’re trying to go.

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.

Read widely and with discrimination. Bad writing is contagious."[Ten rules for writing fiction, The Guardian, 20 February 2010 (with Diana Athill, Margaret Atwood, Roddy Doyle, Helen Dunmore, Geoff Dyer, Anne Enright, Richard Ford, Jonathan Franzen, Esther Freud, Neil Gaiman, David Hare, and AL Kennedy)]