You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.

The first draft of anything is sh*t.

Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for.

It's silly not to hope. It's a sin he thought.

Never confuse movement with action.

Show the readers everything, tell them nothing.

A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.