writing

"I wrote you a love letter. I used invisible ink to show I was being transparent with my feelings. And also to hide my feelings."

"All novels are sequels; influence is bliss."

"Everywhere I go, I am asked if I think university stifles writers. My opinion is that it doesn't stifle enough of them."

"I have people in my life, of course. Some write; some don't. Some read; some don't. Some stare vacantly into space when I talk the geeky talk and walk the geeky walk, but they make killer chocolate chip pancakes and so all is forgiven."

"A few weeks after the worst day, I started writing lots of letters. I don't know why, but it was one of the only things that made my boots lighter."

"I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time."

"If you have not done things worthy of being written about, at least write things worthy of being read."

"After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love, and I was sure this was a very good story although I would not know truly how good until I read it over the next day."

"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed."

"If I could sum it up in 50 words, I wouldn't have needed to write a whole novel about it."

"If Pavlov tested his cat he would have failed."

"[A young adult novel] ends not with happily ever after, but at a new beginning, with the sense of a lot of life yet to be lived."

"You either have to write or you shouldn't be writing. That's all."

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."

"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others."

"Maybe love was meant to save us from ourselves."

"There Are Two Typos Of People In This World: Those Who Can Edit And Those Who Can’t"

"I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out of me with steel pipes."

"It is the tale, not he who tells it."

"Write every day, line by line, page by page, hour by hour. Do this despite fear. For above all else, beyond imagination and skill, what the world asks of you is courage, courage to risk rejection, ridicule and failure. As you follow the quest for stories told with meaning and beauty, study thoughtfully but write boldly. Then, like the hero of the fable, your dance will dazzle the world."