You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like ….

There is a difference if we see something with a pencil in our hand or without one..

I love worldbuilding. It's as much fun for me as writing itself. It's like a hobby of mine..

Many different substances, as distinct to the practiced eye as stone and wood, go to the making of a novel, and it is necessary to see them for what ….

Writing, at least a craft and at its best an art, aspiring to the unique, is the most difficult to learn..

Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity..

There are only two kinds of books which you can write and be pretty sure you're going to make a living — cook books and detective stories..

We generally write best of what we ourselves have seen..

This fact was something I also learned from this first novel that I needed personal experience to invent, to fantasize, to create fiction, but at the….

I've been told it's hard to write about singing. I didn't realize that going into it. I might not have tried if I knew!.

There's a point at which writing a book, or a long article, begins to feel like mental labor, and it's too painful to connect in the world in any rea….

real letter-writing ... is founded on a need as old and as young as humanity itself, the need that one human being has of another..

I think the benefit of being a writer is that I'm looking for the subtext on the page, because all good writing has subtext. And as a writer, you loo….

I was nervous about writing Slow Regard..

Every love song I write is for Linda..

Some days I don't feel confident wearing, like a crop-top. So, when you're getting dressed for the day, gravitate towards items that you feel comfort….

Setting down in writing, is a lasting memory..

Each time you write something, part of you grows. You're training your artistic muscles to find your voice..

In the same way that Shakespeare was writing very much for his time, he was also unearthing observations that would last for generations beyond him..

I'm playin' the music I like..

What really happened was one day I decided to write a new kind of play..