#writing

"I have always been a huge admirer of my own work. I'm one of the funniest and most entertaining writers I know."

"Rem tene, verba sequentur: grasp the subject, and the words will follow. This, I believe, is the opposite of what happens with poetry, which is more a case of verba tene, res sequenter: grasp the words, and the subject will follow."

"I do believe that characters in novels belong to their writers and their readers pretty equally. I've learned a lot of things about the characters I write from people who read about them. Readers expand them in ways I don't think of and take them to places I can't go."

"To become successful, one must put themselves in the paths of giants!"

"The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible."

"Try looking at your mind as a wayward puppy that you are trying to paper train. You don't drop-kick a puppy into the neighbor's yard every time it piddles on the floor. You just keep bringing it back to the newspaper."

"Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself."

"A long list of propositions does not necessarily make a coherent argument"

"A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times."

"I’m more of a journalist than anyone in the mainstream media, and I write fiction. More than fiction, I write absurd nonsense surrealism, and my work has more truth."

"New Year - a new chapter, new verse, or just the same old story ? Ultimately we write it. The choice is ours."

"It’s 4:00 in the afternoon and I’m just now putting on clothes. The life of a writer is as free as the pizza I just had delivered is not."

"Good ideas stay with you until you eventually write the story."

"We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter"

"I have no doubt at all the Devil grins,As seas of ink I spatter. Ye gods, forgive my "literary"sins --The other kind don't matter."

"Always be a poet, even in prose."

"Early on I set out to write the next Great American Novel, and then later on I set out the silverware and enjoyed my dinner in silence."

"A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."

"Writer's block is just a symptom of feeling like you have nothing to say, combined with the rather weird idea that you should feel the need to say something. Why? If you have something to say, then say it. If not, enjoy the silence while it lasts. The noise will return soon enough."

"Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers."