Every word I write is another stroke that takes me to the shore of a completed book.

One would think a writer would be happy here -- if a writer is every happy anywhere.

The lives great artists live and the books they write are two very different things.

A kind of losing loadum is their game,Where the worst writer has the greatest fame.

Give a hundred writers the same idea and you'll get a hundred different stories.

...bow to genius, but to the authority of that genius - not the display of talent...

sometimes i wake upin the middleof the nightand findpoetry splatteredall over my bed.

If you write without reading, you will certainly have too many books without readers.

I love Edit. He gives me tons of second chances to make things just right between us.

I added 'writers' to my list of people not to trust. They make everything up.

I don't want to write soft, easy fiction; I want to write fiction that challenges.

An introspective man who doesn’t keep a diary consigns himself to a special hell

I believe that a writer is a person who writes. An author is a person who has written.

I suppose half the time Shakespeare just shoved down anything that came into his head.

poetry. i am not writing it.(make way for me please)it is my skin. dripping with light.