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You know, it's hard work to write a book. I can't tell you how many times I really get going on an idea, then my quill breaks. Or I spill ink all over my writing tunic.
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The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes.
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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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In writing, you must kill all your darlings.
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Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing.
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One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.
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Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly - they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
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What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.
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A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it.
