If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.
Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.
Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.
You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.
That’s what fiction is for. It’s for getting at the truth when the truth isn’t sufficient for the truth.
A word after a word after a word is power.
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story.
A short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.
A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
The road to hell is paved with adverbs.
If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.
There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they’ll take you.
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