Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
Family is the most important thing in the world.
The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
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.
I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.
There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned.
The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.
Usually, when people get to the end of a chapter, they close the book and go to sleep. I deliberately write a book so when the reader gets to the end of the chapter, he or she must turn one more page.
You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.
Success comes to a writer as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed.
The faster I write the better my output. If I'm going slow, I'm in trouble. It means I'm pushing the words instead of being pulled by them.
When people tell me I've kept them up all night, I feel like I've succeeded.
Being popular is the most important thing in the world!
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