You can fix anything but a blank page.
It's amazing that a man who is dead can talk to people through these pages. As long as this books survives, his ideas live.
Easy reading is damn hard writing.
A book is not completed till it's read.
The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.
Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.
Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.
A novel examines not reality but existence. And existence is not what has occurred, existence is the realm of human possibilities, everything that man can become, everything he's capable of. Novelists...
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
I am sifting my memories, the way men pan the dirt under a barroom floor for the bits of gold dust that fall between the cracks. It's small mining-- small mining. You're too young a man to be panning...
Either give it your all or don't even try!
A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave.
It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write.
Why one goes on writing when one sees what writing can be - and what one's own writing is not. Aldous Huxley
O for a Muse of fire, that would ascendThe brightest heaven of invention!
It's the Abstract Expressionist approach to publishing. Throw ink at paper. Hope for pattern to emerge.
All deeply good characters in imaginative literature, have to be, as it were, diluted with weakness or eccentricity; for only on such conditions are they comprehensible by readers and expressible by w...
If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut.
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