"What difference does it make if you live in a picturesque little outhouse surrounded by 300 feeble minded goats and your faithful dog? The question is: Can you write?"
"It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end."
"Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you."
"Do you suffer when you write? I don't at all. Suffer like a bastard when don't write, or just before, and feel empty and fucked out afterwards. But never feel as good as while writing."
"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed."
"it is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better. But do not start to think so damned simply. Know how complicated it is and then state it simply."