There is a ruthlessness to the creative act. It often involves a betrayal of the status quo.

Writer’s block, I just drove around it four times. All my favorite writers live there.

If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.

The secret is not to write about what you love best, but about what you, alone, love at all.

First and foremost, I am me. I'm real. I don't write to impress. I write to express.

It's not how great the ideas are. It's about how you write them, to make them great.

The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't.

Grand. There's a word I really hate. It's a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.

Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.

To write does not mean to convert the real into words but to make the power of the word real.

Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it's the only way you can do anything good.

If I could sum it up in 50 words, I wouldn't have needed to write a whole novel about it.

If you don t have time to read you don t have the time (or the tools) to write Simple as that

Everything I've written up to this point is crap. Now I'm going to write the real one

Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.