Love the writing, love the writing, love the writing... the rest will follow.

Ideas are the cheapest part of the writing. They are free. The hard part is what you do with ideas you've gathered.

Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.

It's never perfect when I write it down the first time, or the second time, or the fifth time. But it always gets better as I go over it and over it.

The thing I want to know is, if you tell your brain not to do stuff... and it keeps doing it anyway, does that mean your mind has a mind of its own? And if it does, then who's in charge here, anyway?

Stories," he'd said, his voice low and almost husky, "we are made up of stories. And even the one's that seem the most like lies can be our deepest hidden truths.

Exercise the writing muscle every day.