"Writing may or may not be your salvation; it might or might not be your destiny. But that does not matter. What matters right now are the words, one after another. Find the next word. Write it down."
"Idris: Are all people like this?The Doctor: Like what?Idris: So much bigger on the inside."
"Read. Read anything. Read the things they say are good for you, and the things they claim are junk. You'll find what you need to find. Just read."
"Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal."
"I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something."
"This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard."