If you're a writer, the answer to everything is yes.

A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.

Good novel are written by people who are not frightened.

Words and a book and a belief that the world is words...

Yes, it's hard to write, but it's harder not to.

The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.

The world requires me to re-write its wretched dialogue!

As Mo had said: writing stories is a kind of magic, too.

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness

A work of art is never finished. It is merely abandoned.

[I]f a book is well written, I always find it too short.

A critic is a legless man who teaches other people to run

To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.

Everything in life is a story just waiting to be written.

The story is always better than your ability to write it.