If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.
Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.
The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.
The road to hell is paved with adverbs.
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
The road to hell is paved with leeks and potatoes
The road to Hell is paved with unbought stuffed dogs.
And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
Easy reading is damn hard writing.
Writing isn't about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end, it's about enriching the lives of those who will read your work, and enriching your own life, as well. It's about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting happy.
Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.
The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but that's the only way you can do anything really good.
My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.
If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn't matter a damn how you write.
Begin with an individual, and before you know it you find that you have created a type; begin with a type, and you find that you have created - nothing.
Follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
or simply: