Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.
Always be a poet, even in prose.
What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn’t happen much, though.
you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.
I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I’m afraid of.
Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you’ve been to college.
We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.
Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is…
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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