“Real-life duties eat valuable writing time.”

“I don't think writers need to be insane. Just crazy.”

“Research" is a wonderful word for writers. It serves as excuse for EVERYTHING”

“I trust my characters. They know their stories better than I do.”

“You get to decide where your time goes. You can either spend it moving forward, or you can spend it putting out fires. You decide. And if you don't decide, others will decide for you.”

“You can't make up for lost time. You can only do better in the future.”

“Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.”

“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.”

“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”