Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.

Writers cannot choose their own mood: with them it is not always hide-tide, nor --thank Heaven!--always Storm.

It's quite simple. I just don't feel right without a pen in my hand denting a hole through my notepad.

After you have finished a piece of work, the work is then none of your business. Go on and do something else.

Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it.

I will write one book that will change entire humankind if only you have enough guts to read my previous ones.

Which is him?" The grammar was faulty, maybe, but we could not know, then, that it would go in a book someday.

Writing is like breathing, it's possible to learn to do it well, but the point is to do it no matter what.

When a day goes by and I haven't written anything, I better have been doing something worth writing about.

In the planning stage of a book, don't plan the ending. It has to be earned by all that will go before it.

Sometimes it's impossible to say certain things ... Writing is something needed by man to share experience.

Dive again and again into the river of uncertainty. Create in the dark, only then can you recognize the light.

I am simply of the opinion that you cannot be taught to write. You have to spend a lifetime in love with words.

take a writer away from his typewriterand all you have leftisthe sicknesswhich started himtypingin thebeginning

My writing, it’s all I have. Well, aside from my health. And shelter, food, and clothing. Oh, and my cat.