You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
It is perfectly okay to write garbage – as long as you edit brilliantly.
Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.
You fail only if you stop writing.
The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.
I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.
The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.
It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.
Being a writer means taking the leap from listening to saying 'Listen to me'.
Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
If you have other things in your life-family, friends, good productive day work-these can interact with your writing and the sum will be all the richer.
It ain't whatcha write, it's the way atcha write it.
Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.
People on the outside think there's something magical about writing, that you go up in the attic at midnight and cast the bones and come down in the morning with a story, but it isn't like that. You sit in back of the typewriter and you work, and that's all there is to it.
You learn by writing short stories. Keep writing short stories. The money's in novels, but writing short stories keeps your writing lean and pointed.
If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.
I write to be the characters that I am not.
Forget all the rules. Forget about being published. Write for yourself and celebrate writing.
Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don't see any.
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.
The road to Hell is paved with unbought stuffed dogs.
The road to hell is paved with leeks and potatoes
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