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“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.”
“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
“The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them -- words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no ...”
“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
“The scariest moment is always just before you start.”
“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
“Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.”
“I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.”
“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”
“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.”
“let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences”
“There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.”
“Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.”
“You can make anything by writing.”
“Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.”
“You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads... may you b...”
“I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of. ”
“Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.”
