you must not come lightly to the blank page.

I just sit at my typewriter and curse a bit.

The paper is patient, but the reader is not.

Why write stories? To join the conversation.

Great writers are the saints for the godless

You are either born a writer or you are not.

Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.

The writer is the engineer of the human soul

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures

History never repeats itself, historians do.

If it's fiction, then it better be true.

In writing, you must kill all your darlings.

The thing I write will be the thing I write.

I'm either going to be a writer or a bum.

If I do not write to empty my mind, I go mad.