Planning to write is not writing.

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

There is music in words, and it can be heard you know, by thinking.

What we call fiction is the ancient way of knowing, the total discourse that antedates all the special vocabularies....Fiction is democratic, it reasserts the authority of the single mind to make and remake the world.

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

A novelist is a person who lives in other people's skins.

Planning to write is not writing.