All writers are obviously neurotic... For various reasons, writers retreat into an imaginary world because they find ordinary life rather difficult or boring or both.
I love contemporary North American fiction and short fiction. My favorite writer is Jonathan Franzen, and my favorite writers of short fiction are George Saunders and Alice Munro.
I love Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor. I read a lot of American writers.
For obviously the advantage for most writers is that no one sees them. The writer is invisible, which confers power.
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.
You are a great genius. Seek to fulfil it.
May God strengthen you for a great work.
Life's challenges are opportunities for personal growth.
There is enough strength within you to overcome anything in life.
Dreams are possibilities, cherish your dreams.
We must manifest the glory of God on earth.
Do we reflect on life? Someday this life will be gone.
Blessed are you who endure life trails.
There are valuable lessons to be learnt in every stage of life.
As corny as it sounds, I'm often pinching myself going, 'What great opportunities and great parts and great people that I've gotten to work with.'
