#writing

"But the truth is, it's not the idea, it's never the idea, it's always what you do with it."(Online journal entry for January 31, 2009)"

"Ink, a Drug."

"Maybe I hope too much. Maybe I dream too much or maybe I love too much to just give up on you."

"I've got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen."

"Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings."

"I never exactly made a book. It's rather like taking dictation. I was given things to say."

"I have people in my life, of course. Some write; some don't. Some read; some don't. Some stare vacantly into space when I talk the geeky talk and walk the geeky walk, but they make killer chocolate chip pancakes and so all is forgiven."

"How can you write if you can't cry?"

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

"You can’t put much on paper before you betray your secret self, try as you will to keep things civil."

"Love isn’t in a hurry like a flurry of flowery words on paper. It’s lush and slow to grow its aroma in the garden of time."

"the writing of somemenis like a vast bridgethat carries youoverthe many thingsthat claw and tear.The Wine of Forever"

"Half of what I write is garbage, but if I don't write it down it decomposes in my head."

"Writing is a delicious agony."

"A deadline is, simply put, optimism in its most kick-ass form. It's a potent force that, when wielded with respect, will level any obstacle in its path. This is especially true when it comes to creative pursuits."

"My hands could be considered deadly weapons. You see, I write with both of them."

"The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speaks he lies."

"We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect."

"It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones."

"Writing feels safer somehow. I can catch myself before I say the wrong thing."