#writing

"If you have a dream, keep it. But write it down and take appropriate actions to see it manifest."

"Who’s to say what a ‘literary life’ is? As long as you are writing often, and writing well, you don’t need to be hanging-out in libraries all the time. Nightclubs are great literary research centers. So is Ibiza!"

"I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell."

"The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies."

"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."

"I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely somewhere near it, but in the garden."

"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."

"So okay― there you are in your room with the shade down and the door shut and the plug pulled out of the base of the telephone. You've blown up your TV and committed yourself to a thousand words a day, come hell or high water. Now comes the big question: What are you going to write about? And the equally big answer: Anything you damn well want."

"Better a good journalist than a poor assassin."

"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."

"Coin a new word and hear it jingle in your pocket with all your other change. My love for you is sofacouchsitsitting, so you’d better buckle up."

"Critics are to authors what dogs are to lamp-posts."

"Writing blooms flowers for mind, which last forever."

"A good book will pull you in from the beginning and take you on a journey you'll never forget."

"The desire to write grows with writing."

"No book can ever be finished. While working on it we learn just enough to find it immature the moment we turn away from it"

"Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird."

"The secret is not to write about what you love best, but about what you, alone, love at all."

"The joy of writing.The power of preserving.Revenge of a mortal hand."

"You always get more respect when you don't have a happy ending."