Play around. Dive into absurdity and write. Take chances. You will succeed if you are fearless of failure.

And what is wrong with playing with words? Words love to be played with, just like children or kittens do!

I feel more alive when I'm writing than I do at any other time--except maybe when I'm making love.

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

Somebody gets into trouble, then gets out of it again. People love that story. They never get tired of it.

I'm writing. The pages are starting to stack up. My morale is improving the more I feel like a writer.

As for writing, that's a cruel hard business. Unless you're very lucky it'll break your heart.

You can’t put much on paper before you betray your secret self, try as you will to keep things civil.

It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

Rereading parts of your novel while writing is like doubling back at rerunning parts of a marathon midrace.

Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.

A short story is a different thing all together - a short story is like a kiss in the dark from a stranger.

Sometimes I scare myself at how easily I slip inside my mind and live vicariously through these characters.

There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong.

You can't judge a book by it's cover but you can sure sell a bunch of books if you have a good one.