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“Remember that wasted minute at the start of the day? Hard luck but you'll never find it again.”
“The moment of writing is not an escape...it is only an insistence, through the imagination, upon human ecstasy, and a reminder that such ecstasy remains as much a birthright in this world as misery...”
“Beginning to write, you discover what you have to write about.”
“Art is the writer not having control, but the subject having control of the writer.”
“What is the best way to write? Each of us has to discover her own way by writing. Writing teaches writing. No one can tell you your own secret. ”
“Novel-writing can be a cold-blooded business. One uses whatever happens to be lying around in memory and employs it to suit ones end.Then, again, during the months whilst one is writing about the p...”
“That's one of the tragedies of this life - that the men who are most in need of a beating up are always enormous.”
“I HAD known him as a bulldozer, as a samurai, as an android programmed to kill, as Plastic Man and Titanium Man and Matter-Eater Lad, as a Buick Electra, as a Peterbilt truck, and even, for a week,...”
“I decided that if I was never going to sell anything as long as I lived, I might as well do what I want to do 'cause then at least I would've done what I wanted to do in life. What's that worth?”
“It ain't a crapshoot unless you write crap.”
“A key and a strangler - this is all a simple tale requires.”
“I get annoyed when a self-indulgent writer just shows off what he knows but doesn't really tell a story. To me storytelling is first a craft. Then if you're lucky, it becomes an art form. But first...”
“I went to the library. I looked at the magazines, at the pictures in them. One day I went to the bookshelves, and pulled out a book. It was Winesburg, Ohio.. I sat at a long mahogany table and bega...”
“Seeing your own name on the book cover is like hearing your book saying, "Hi. Thanks for writing me!”
“The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation, and it seems most true when it eschews artistic devices of any sort.”
“The hardest things to write are often the best things to read. And the most deserving to be written.”
“ Writing is my passion. I never want to let it go. It may be short, Fan-Fiction or purely my own work. But it is my kingdom, I am the princess. For all the noble readers in the kingdom, I bring the...”
“Dont start right off writing the Great American Novel, that's too much pressure and you'll get disappointed; start with porn, its fun and a good way to get your feet wet.”
“No one can call themselves a writer until he or she has written at least fifty stories.”
“I kill my loneliness by reading and (then) writing, damn.”
