Writing is the delicate, difficult, and dangerous means of succeeding in avowing the unavowable.

An inspirational writer's life is an open book that never shuts. Choose your words carefully.

Wasn't writing a kind of soaring, an achievable form of flight, of fancy, of the imagination?

It's as hard to get from almost finished to finished as to get from beginning to almost done.

All you have to do is put one word after another, and remember how great it feels to be a writer.

I want my writing to be as smooth as drinking a glass of water—pool water, with piss in it.

The emotional tone or affect of the tale should be hot and engaged, not remote and dispassionate.

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.

You will learn more about writing from one hour of reading than you will in six hours of writing.

You don’t deserve my image in your head. You don’t deserve my memories in your chest.

Wordplay hides a key to reality that the dictionary tries in vain to lock inside every free word.

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos.

I must write now and quickly, before I begin to prefer the perfect version that lives in my head.

Know that you will eventually have to leave everything behind; the writing will demand it of you.

Always suffer delusions of grandeur with your art. What you are unable to face will never hurt you