Some lived in it and never felt it but he knew it all was nada y pues nada y nada y pues nada.

After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love.

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it.

We're stronger in the places that we've been broken.

I read my own books sometimes to cheer me when it is hard to write, and then I remember that it was always difficult, and how nearly impossible it was sometimes.

A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.

The great thing is to last and get your work done and see and hear and learn and understand; and write when there is something that you know; and not before, and not too damned much after.