Writing

"I am a storyteller and experience the bliss of writing."

"Gun for sure is louder than a Pen, bullet is hotter than Ink, but Death is not a silencer for Pen."

"I love words.  I crave descriptions that overwhelm my imagination with vivid detail.  I dwell on phrases that make my heart thrum.  I cherish expressions that pierce my emotions and force the tears to spill over.   In essence, I long for a writer's soul sealed in ink on the page."

"Let All Your Life’s Experiences Lead To More Writing & Encourage More Reading..!"

"Write because you love to write."

"I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing this., New York Times, April 19, 1992]"

"I hope I don't write TOO many books! When I look at authors who have written too many books, I wonder to myself "When did they live" I certainly want to write BECAUSE I live! I know I don't want to write in order to live! My writing is an overflow of the wine glass of my life, not a basin in which I wash out my ideals and expectations."

"It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones."

"The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning."

"Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey."

"Living is about capturing the essence of things. I go through my life every day with a vial, a vial wherein can be found precious essential oils of every kind! The priceless, fragrant oils that are the essence of my experiences, my thoughts. I walk inside a different realm from everybody else, in that I am existing in the essence of things; every time there is reason to smile, I hold out my glass vial and capture that drop of oil, that essence, and then I smile. And that is why I have smiled, and so you and I may be smiling at the same time but I am smiling because of that one drop of cherished, treasured oil that I have extracted. When I write, I find no need to memorize an idea, a plot, a sequence of things: no. I must only capture the essence of a feeling or a thought and once I have inhaled that aroma, I know that I have what I need."

"No writing is wasted. Did you know that sourdough from San Francisco is leavened partly by a bacteria called lactobacillus sanfrancisensis? It is native to the soil there, and does not do well elsewhere. But any kitchen can become an ecosystem. If you bake a lot, your kitchen will become a happy home to wild yeasts, and all your bread will taste better. Even a failed loaf is not wasted. Likewise, cheese makers wash the dairy floor with whey. Tomato gardeners compost with rotten tomatoes. No writing is wasted: the words you can't put in your book can wash the floor, live in the soil, lurk around in the air. They will make the next words better."

"A good idea always attracts other good ideas."

"Cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal."

"Imagination is what you do with your inspiration."

"He who writes to his beloved every day is not a lover, but a writer."

"Writing is a bittersweet addiction. The more it drains you; the more replenished you feel, and you crave it even more."

"You can control the visibility of my name and my popularity, but you cannot control the frequency at which people are quoting me. Truth always rises with time."

"An entrepreneur with strong network makes money even when he is asleep."

"Networking isn't how many people you know, it's how many people know you."