But for any writer worthy of the name there are moments during the writing process when the rest of the planet might as well have gone to Venus. And those moments are not for sale.

The fact that writers will go through so much to remain writers says something, perhaps everything. It would be far easier (and nearly always more profitable) to become a real estate agent.

I have times when I despair, and I cry. There are moments when I want to give up. But my husband needs me. So I get up for one more day.

Writing is a solitary venture. Making use of a soundless void in the vortex of time the author enters the realm of restoration, an undertaking where he or she explores that private psychic space of the self. In this mystical state of heightened awareness, the writer investigates the soul’s grievances, and diagnoses and treats their grim afflictions.

In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book.

Everyone carries a story which can be a best selling novel, it’s just a matter of penning down your feelings on papers.