Don't think about things, just do them; don't predict them, just make them.
Don’t let people interfere with you. Boot ’em out, turn off the phone, hide away, get it done. If you carry a short story over to the next day you may overnight intellectualize something about it and try to make it too fancy, try to please someone.
Do what you love, don't do anything else.
We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will.
When the wind is right, a faint odor of kerosene is exhaled from Senator McCarthy.
You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads... may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.