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Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don’t see any.
Do not place a photograph of your favorite author on your desk, especially if the author is one of the famous ones who committed suicide.
Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade, just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.
In Hollywood, the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can’t read. If they could read their stuff, they’d stop writing.
If you have an idea that you genuinely think is good, don’t let some idiot talk you out of it.
When writing a novel, that’s pretty much entirely what life turns into: “House burned down. Car stolen. Cat exploded. Did 1,500 easy words, so all in all it was a pretty good day.”
I get up in the morning, torture a typewriter until it screams, then stop.
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.
I have a structured songwriting process. I start with the music and try to come up with musical ideas, then the melody, then the hook, and the lyrics come last.
You may be able to take a break from writing, but you won’t be able to take a break from being a writer.
My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.

























