I think the writer has to be responsible to signs and dreams. If you don't do anything with it, you lose it.

Nothing the writer can do is ever enough.

Writers end up writing stories-or rather, stories' shadows-and they're grateful if they can, but it is not enough. Nothing the writer can do is ever enough

Nothing we do is inevitable, but everything we do is irreversible.

It's become fashionable these days to say that the writer writes because he is not whole, he has a wound, he writes to heal it, but who cares if the writer is not whole; of course the writer is not whole, or even particularly well.

Why does the writer write? The writer writes to serve--hopeless ly he writes in the hope that he might serve--not himself and not others, but that great cold elemental grace that knows us.

You must stop worrying about why things happen and wonder what they mean when they do.