Writing is immensely difficult. The short forms especially.

Children have a lot more to worry about from the parents who raised them than from the books they read.

Movies are too literal.

Every major work of art is a transgression, but the artist is not necessarily, by nature, a transgressor.

Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.

I've known several cases of writers who decide to write about something and they research the hell out of it and when they're ready to write, they can't move because they are so burdened. I start writing. Whatever I need somehow comes to hand.

Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.