you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.

Such an ego simply forbade certain lines of thought.

One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for long words because you're maybe a little bit ashamed of your short ones. This is like dressing up a household pet in evening clothes. The pet is embarrassed and the person who committed this act of premeditated cuteness should be even more embarrassed.

I can't lie and say there are no bad writers. Sorry, but there are lots of bad writers.

Lovecraft opened the way for me, as he had done for others before me

People seem to think there's a magic formula to writing, i just write 1 word at a time.

...they came to see what happened to their town, to see if it was indeed lying burnt and bleeding. Many of them also came to die.