When a person sets out to learn from others and not to teach others he becomes a true writer.

To find the courage to keep writing after constant failure is awesomeness. Winning is eminent.

What is your advice to young writers?” “Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes.

On the worst day of writing, the work is instructive. On the best day, the act is transcendent.

Story seems to say that everything happens for a reason and I want to say, No, it doesn’t.

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

I prefer the pen. There is something elemental about the glide and flow of nib and ink on paper.

Everything you need to know about life can be learned from a genuine and ongoing attempt to write

...if you always move in certainty, your writing will be flat - creativity is a rugged terrain...

The act of giving voice to this spiritual suffering is, in my view, the sacred duty of the writer.

Half the fun of writing a novel is finding out from other people later on what you actually meant.

Book:Sharing of life and experiences with other people.This is lifetime notes for all generations.

A successful self-publisher must fill three roles: Author, Publisher, and Entrepreneur—or APE.

So much of reading and writing to me is about being elsewhere, no matter how much I love where I am.

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