If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.
Tears are words that need to be written.
Always be a poet, even in prose.
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.
A short story is a different thing all together - a short story is like a kiss in the dark from a stranger.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.
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.
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.