Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.
Longing, the hope for fulfillment, is the one unwavering passion of the world's commerce.
I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.
The images of things are not the things in themselves.
Whenever citizens are seen routinely as enemies of their own government, writers are rountinely seen to be the most dangerous enemies.
Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.