The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.
You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.
Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.
If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.