There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.
One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.
Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.
All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.
The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. ’tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.
There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.
You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.
You can make anything by writing.
The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.
Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.
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.
Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it’s always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.
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