“Each time I write, I reaffirm my soul.”

“There is always, always, always something to write about.”

“Every book I've read appears in my writing.”

“...you are a writer the moment you start writing, not when you've sold your first book.”

“...ugly interlopers threaten to choke off your story, depriving it of much-needed nutrition, sunlight and water. Identify and cut those weeds the life-sucking adverbs, the shade-killing descriptio...”

“When we sit down to write, we psychically enter a sanctuary. This safe haven is our own personal space where we can say whatever is on our mind, where we can talk about what matters most to us, whe...”

“If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!”

“You can write nothing of value unless you give yourself wholly to the the theme -- and when you so give yourself -- you lose appetite ans sleep -- it cannot be helped --”

“If you're a writer, the answer to everything is yes.”

“Forget how long the path to finishing your story. Address only what you have to write today.”

“I had once tried to write, had once reveled in feeling, had let m crude imagination roam, but the impulse to dream had been slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and i hunge...”

“The beginning of every writing session is like setting down a road unknown.”

“A Writer Must Have Text Appeal”