#writing

"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."

"File under "Hard Truths": the creative muse is fiction. If you sit around waiting for the right moment to create, you will die waiting."

"You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club."

"When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women"

"The Sacred and The Scared. Which of these two categories does your love fall under? I should write a love poem on a rolled-up scroll so you’d know which one categorizes mine."

"Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen."

"If I lived a million lives, I would've felt a million feelings and I still would've fallen a million times for you."

"In the ordinary jumble of my literary drawer, I sometimes find texts I wrote ten, fifteen, or even more years ago. And many of them seem to me written by a stranger: I simply do not recognize myself in them. There was a person who wrote them, and it was I. I experienced them, but it was in another life, from which I just woke up, as if from someone else's dream."

"She was a beautiful dreamer. The kind of girl, who kept her head in the clouds, loved above the stars and left regret beneath the earth she walked on."

"My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That's heaven. That's gold and anything else is just a waste of time."

"The writer can grow as a person or he can shrink. ... His curiosity, his reaction to life must not diminish. The fatal thing is to shrink, to be interested in less, sympathetic to less, desiccating to the point where life itself loses its flavor, and one’s passion for human understanding changes to weariness and distaste."

"There's nothing on Earth like really nailing the last line of a big book. You have 200 pages to tickle their fancy, and seven words to break their heart."

"I smell blood and an era of prominent madmen."

"Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish."

"I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of."

"When a poet digs himself into a hole, he doesn't climb out. He digs deeper, enjoys the scenery, and comes out the other side enlightened."

"I need you because I know I deserve you but let me fall in love with you one last time before I let go. So I can remember the beautiful imperfection that rattled my bones."

"If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot."

"I think I’m mouth blind and that’s why all food tastes bland. The only things that have any flavor are the words I love you."

"I can't imagine a romance novel published today where the hero rapes the heroine and she falls in love with him."