#writing-craft

"Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words."

"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."

"If the story you're telling, is the story you're telling, you're in deep shit."

"Anyone who says writing is easy isn't doing it right."

"I'm not a writer. Ernest Hemingway was a writer. I just have a vivid imagination and type 90 WPM."

"It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written."

"Pursue knowledge as though it is your life-blood, then you will know greatness!"

"The best writers I've read possess oodles of self-doubt, yet claw their way up with each work and remain humble. Boastful ones, not so much."

"The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't."

"You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more."("The Castle")"

"Every word I write is like a drop of my blood. If it's flowed passionately and long, I need time to recover from the emotion spent before I begin a new story. My characters are aspects of my life. I have to respectfully and carefully move between them."