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“You just don't know writers. They'll use anything, anybody. They'll eat their young.”
“Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence. ”
“It's okay to embark on writing because you think it will get you love. At least it gets you going, but it doesn't last. After a while you realize that no one cares that much. Then you find another ...”
“And I thought, eight years ago, when I began carefully charting the progress of American Gods, nervously dipping my toes into the waters of blogging, would I have imagined a future in which, instea...”
“My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel it is, before all, to make you see. That and no more, and it is everything. If I succ...”
“Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head.”
“In order really to write one has to sink deep into the self and become lost there.”
“Most great works of the imagination were meant to make you feel like a stranger in your own home. The best fiction always forced us to question what we took for granted. It questioned traditions an...”
“My writing is how I maintain.”
“The beginning and the end are never really the journey of discovery for me. It is the middle that remains a puzzle until well into the writing. That's how life is most of the time, isn't it? You kn...”
“In my craft or sullen artExercised in the still nightWhen only the moon ragesAnd the lovers lie abedWith all their griefs in their arms,I labour by singing lightNot for ambition or breadOr the stru...”
“Being in the mood to write, like being in the mood to make love, is a luxury that isn't necessary in a long-term relationship. Just as the first caress can lead to a change of heart, the first sent...”
“A Chinese poet many centuries ago noticed that to re-create something in words is like being alive twice. ”
“What do you want? What are you willing to give up to get it? Writing requires you make sacrifices. Be prepared to work hard to be a writer.”
“Writing is hard work. But if you want to become a writer you will become one. Nothing will stop you.”
“Writing for me is a kind of compulsion, so I don't think anyone could havemade me do it, or prevented me from doing it.”
“To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize compos...”
“Write as the wind blows and command all words like an army!”
“To be an honest writer, you have to be away from home, and totally alone in life.”
“We have this idea that we need to be in the mood to write. We don't.”
