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Every story is a ride to some place and time other than here and now. Buried in an armchair, reclined on a couch, prostrate on your bed, or glued to your desk, you can go places and travel through time.

Write Here Write Now: Standing at Attention Before My Imaginary Style Dictator

I taught elementary school and painted apartments for ten years. Now I write full-time and never have to change a thing I write. Every book comes to me in a flash of inspiration and takes me about two seconds to finish. The longer books, like the 'Ti...

Jon Scieszka

If I'm not writing a book, I'm doing promotion for a book. One thing I love to do is go off with my husband to a great hotel in a beautiful location. I like to find a spot where I can sit and write and look up at beautiful scenery and take breaks alo...

Ruth Glick

When I wrote my first book, 'The Tennis Party', my overriding concern was that I didn't write the autobiographical first novel. I was so, so determined not to write about a 24-year-old journalist. It was going to have male characters, and middle-aged...

Sophie Kinsella

I used to think that when I finished a book, I was finished with it. But it's like a wonderful Hydra. Every time a head disappears, more heads appear, so I will be writing for the rest of my life. The more books I write, the more books I find that I ...

Tony Buzan

I write back to every fan who writes me, which is kind of a full-time job in some regards 'cause I don't want people to wait too long . So I get up very early in the morning and try to rip through all of them. I pretty much sleep four hours a night. ...

Adam Green

Journal writing Helps Us Heal. That's one of the therapeutic methods to helping us cope with hardship or painful situations in our lives. Writing in a journal allows us to make sense of things and also helps us to let go of some things. It’s a way ...

Angie Karan Krezos

I am such a romantic at heart. I don't think I will ever write a book that doesn't have at lease an underlying love story. There's just something about it that makes me feel alive when I write it. Romance is beautiful. It's sacred. It's messy. It's w...

Allison J. Kennedy

As a writer, I need an enormous amount of time alone. Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials. It's a matter of doing everything you can to avoid writing, until it is about four in...

Paul Rudnick

Although I write in English, and despite the fact that I’m from America, I consider myself an Armenian writer. The words I use are in English, the surroundings I write about are American, but the soul, which makes me write, is Armenian. This means ...

William Saroyan

But real life is not art.

The Green and Burning Tree: On the Writing and Enjoyment of Children's Books

I do not write to you, but of you,/because the paper that we write on/is our perishable skin.

A Body Made of You

In order to understand what they need to understand, in order to write what they write, they have to be free. And yet, they aren't ever free. They are not free because they are not free of the constrictions their art puts on them.

Peter Davison

It ain't just about writing on some documents, author writes on to the readers' heart and mind.

Master of Stupidity

writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all

The Last Night of the Earth Poems

not writing is not good but trying to write when you can't is worse.

The Last Night of the Earth Poems

He lives the poetry that he cannot write; the others write the poetry that they dare not realize.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Write as an audience member. Write what you want to see, feel and hear.

The Poet and The Painter

the intensity in your eyes burns my pen as i write.

A touch, a tear, a tempest

you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

Reading takes time, and the glass teat takes too much of it.

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft