There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.
We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
The scariest moment is always just before you start.
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.
The first draft of anything is shit.
Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.
All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.
A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.