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

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

“Writing heals my heart like no pill ever could.”

“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...”

“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...”

“A Writer Must Have Text Appeal”

“I'm trying to give my character voice but he won't speak.”

“I have never known anything to be as exquisite or as excruciating as the Love-Hate relationship I have with writing.”

“As with writing by candlelight, ones greatest ideas come from the flickering between darkness and light.”

“There are times you wake up in the middle of the night, fingers hit the keyboard and you allow words to flow. That is a writer.”

“Mostly, we authors must repeat ourselves - that's the truth. We have two or three great and moving experiences in our lives - experiences so great and moving that it doesn't seem at the time anyone...”

“Five common traits of good writers: (1) They have something to say. (2) They read widely and have done so since childhood. (3) They possess what Isaac Asimov calls a "capacity for clear thought," a...”

“There are lots of guys out there who write a better prose line than I do and who have a better understanding of what people are really like and what humanity is supposed to mean hell, I know that.”