Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either.
The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
A short story is a different thing all together - a short story is like a kiss in the dark from a stranger.
Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
Always be a poet, even in prose.
Tears are words that need to be written.
If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.
This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard.
Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff.