"If you wrote something for which someone sent you a check, if you cashed the check and it didn't bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented."
"A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar."
"love is what moves the world, I've always thought...it is the only thing which allows men and women to stand in a world where gravity always seems to want to pull them down...bring them low...and make them crawl..."
"Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up."
"you must not come lightly to the blank page."
"I wouldn't have missed a single minute of it, Not for the whole world."