Don’t try to write a novel. Write short stories and then figure out how to connect them.

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.

I’m the thing you most desire, you represent the thing I least desire, death. It’s just the opposite of love.

We should go to the moon and prepare a base to fire a rocket off to Mars and then go to Mars and colonize Mars. Then when we do that, we will live forever.

Memory is an illusion, nothing more. It is a fire that needs constant tending.

How long has it been since you wrote a story where your real love or your real hatred somehow got onto the paper? When was the last time you dared release a cherished prejudice so it slammed the page like a lightning bolt?

Work. Don't Think. Relax.