The writer presents himself to the blank page not with an open passport but an open heart.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The hardest thing about writing, for me, is facing the blank page.
The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible.
A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A secret, because he is separated from it.
But to me, the most important page in my daughter's book is the last one - because it's blank. It says 'Your Hero's Photo Here,' and 'Your Hero's Story Here.'
A writer is supposed to have anonymity.
You should be writing for the love of the story, and when it comes time to return to the manuscript, everything else belongs behind a closed door.
Only a fool permits the letter of the law to override the spirit in the heart. Do not let a piece of paper stand in the way of true love and headlines.
One of the humbling things about having written more than one novel is the sense that every time you begin, that new empty page does not know who you are.
The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication.
The good news, when you write with another, is that you never have an empty page in front of you. The bad news is... you never have an empty page in front of you.