There is a pretty interesting document called 'action writing.' Which is not all about spontaneity and first thought, best thought,' but a certain ki….

Poets have to keep pushing, pushing, against the darkness, and write their way out of it as well..

In real life, people are constantly saying one thing and doing another, but if you write your characters that way, the story becomes too hard to foll….

I bleed like nobody else..

Exhibition is certainly the safest part of the cinema business, but it's very capital intensive..

Everyone is the other and no one is himself..

He that will write well in any tongue must follow this counsel of Aristotle: to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do..

Eee-nee-mee-nee-my-nee-moe.

Her imperturbable self-confidence (Duchesse de Maine) caused Madame de Stael to write that the Duchesse believed in herself the same way she believed….

Don’t let yourself be. Find something new to try, something to change. Count how often it succeeds and how often it doesn’t. Write about it. Ask a pa….

The direction worth going in isn't up, down, forward, or backward. It's towards. And beyond..

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success..

I have no plans for a future Jemima Shore mystery, but would write one tomorrow if a good idea came to me..

In my youth I thought of writing a satire on mankind! but now in my age I think I should write an apology for them..

James Blish told me I had the worst case of "said bookism" (that is, using every word except said to indicate dialogue). He told me to limit the verb….

I also don't have organized religion on Pern. I figured - since there were four holy wars going on at the time of writing - that religion was one pro….

I think if you've got a good idea it will stand out in one of the different mediums. For example, something might happen to me today and it could be ….

In general, I feel, or I have come to feel, that the richest writing comes not from the people who dedicate themselves to writing alone. I know this ….

the whole point of muck-raking, apart from all the jokes, is to try to do something about what you've been writing about. You may not be able to chan….

I think crime writing is my link with trying to preserve a sort of order..

There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment..