"Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window."
"The saddest thing about love, Joe, is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten."
"In writing, you must kill all your darlings."
"I'm bad and I'm going to hell, and I don't care. I'd rather be in hell than anywhere where you are."
"Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing."
"Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it's the only way you can do anything good."