It isn't the subjects we write about but the seriousness and subtlety of our expression that determines the worth of or effort.

When I'm writing, I make words my b*tch. But when I'm editing, the words make me their b*tch. It all equals out in the end.

What do you do when your head - your imagination is filled with tales to last a hundred lifetimes?You focus on the really good ones!

A writer needs to ingest love to be passionate. Passion is a metabolite of love, and good writing is an active metabolite of passion.

Every time I complete a major project I reward myself with two full days of just reading and coffee! I do justify that it is my work!

Who knows why we do it? And when we've done it, nobody wants it. Still we keep doing it. That's what makes a writer a writer.

The first thing you have to learn when you go into the arts is to learn to cope with rejection. If you can’t, you’re dead

There are as many ways to discover your story as there are to trip over a dog in the kitchen--and some of them feel about as planned.

An author is like an incompetent bricklayer - doesn't use mortar and keeps rearranging the bricks until someone tells him to stop.

Always being myself and my salve, which is life. I’m not lonely, if that’s what it seems like. Always writing things down.

We may think of ourselves as static anti-heroes, but in reality we're dynamic protagonists just waiting for our courage to kick in.

It's not the writing part that's hard. What's hard is sitting down to write.What keeps us from sitting down is Resistance.

Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.

Can I be blunt on this subject? If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.

When people say, 'you're so young to be a writer,' I always reply, 'I started young because I've got a lot to write.