You don't need to go to a therapist, you don't need to do all kinds of things. If you want to write, you physically have to do it.

Use original detail in your writing. Life is so rich, if you can write down the real details of the way things were and are, you hardly need anything else.

Friends open the door for me to write. Then I get paid attention to and it allows me to write other books. The Great Spring and the thirtieth anniversary of Bones just came out and while I'm happy and excited about that, I've already finished a new book. That's what practice does. You don't get caught.

The only failure in writing is when you stop doing it. Then you fail yourself.

A writer must say yes to life.

Writing practice brings us back to the uniqueness of our own minds and an acceptance of it. We all have wild dreams, fantasies, and ordinary thoughts. Let us to feel the texture of them and not be afraid of them.Writing is still the wildest thing I know.

Choose your tools carefully, but not so carefully that you get uptight or spend more time at the stationery store than at your writing table.