If the story you're telling, is the story you're telling, you're in deep shit.

...the most beautiful things don't always make you happy - often they make you weep...

Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation.

There are many rules of good writing, but the best way to find them is to be a good reader.

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

Writing novels is the hardest thing I've ever done, including digging irrigation ditches.

If God inspires your writing, others will know because it will inspire them when they read it.

The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting.

Telling a story is like playing a fiddle. No one want's to hear it when it's done badly

I really learned how to write from Robert Louis Stevenson, Anthony Trollope, and de Maupassant.

When a solid first draft of an original tale is complete...you feel as if you could do anything.

However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.

I recommend writing standing up from time to time. It's easier to dance when you finish writing.

It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.

I'm not a writer. Ernest Hemingway was a writer. I just have a vivid imagination and type 90 WPM.