Failing to writer everyday doesn't mean that you've given up, though a chapter a day - keeps writers block away!
My wife and I always comment that our lives are relatively mundane. She's a writer as well, I'm a writer, we spend most of our time writing, and kind of going to yoga in Brooklyn.
Many fiction writers who put the science in don't get it right.
Comparing oneself with one's fellow writers is a bad idea. I would not review a fellow writer unless I had something terribly positive to say.
Writers don’t get time off. Every moment - waking or sleeping - a writer is working, observing, thinking and creating.
Basically, writers write because they have something to say...Everyone has a story in them, writers merely decide to share it with the world...
It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating one's own creativity - that's a much tougher matter.
Whenever people ask me, "How are your books doing?" or, "How is your book doing?" I just say, "It's okay." I mean, what am I supposed to say? I'm a writer; that means I write because I need to write, because that's how I breathe and that's how I blee...
The shortest path to more American jobs is more American energy and more jobs that relate to American energy.
You can be a Polish American, or an Arab American, or a Greek American but you can't be English American. Why not?
It is best if the guard is in love with America and wants to overawe the American by being a premium guard. This kind of guard thinks that he will encounter the American again one day in America, and that the American will offer to take him to a Chic...
There is no way that we know what is going on between the African American and the Asian American. We don't understand what an Indigenous American is. We don't understand what a Latino American is.
I'm completely Americanized - I have an American accent, an American wife - but a residue of me is foreign.
I wouldn't make an anti-American film. I'm one of the most pro-American foreigners I know. I love America and Americans.
It’s good to ask questions that make people uncomfortable.
A career in the arts can make anyone crazy.
Death is almost never timely, even for the old.
You don't need to wait for inspiration to write. It's easier to be inspired while writing that while not writing...
The prejudice is still there, but it's breaking down. You have writers like Michael Chabon and The Yiddish Policemen's Union. He's a writer who's determined to break down genre barriers. He's done amazing things.
Repeat the mantra: Writing is when I make the words. Editing is when I make them not shitty.
I sometimes think my head is so large because it is so full of dreams.
