I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer that is as I say demon-driven and wants to learn and has got to write, he don't know why, he will lear...
Writing a book is a blood sport. If it doesn't hurt when you're done, you're probably doing something wrong.
...a writer should not so much write as embroider on paper; the work should be painstaking, laborious.
Write drunk (on emotion); edit sober (on rationality and intention).Faulkner, reimagined by me.
It's not pain. It's raw material.
There's no rule for better writing. It's best to make your own rules, and see what works best for you.
A writer seizes every opportunity to wonder.
You can only write well ,what you have lived.
Stories aren't made of language: they're made of something else. A little earlier I said that stories were about life; perhaps they're made of life.
People who want to write books do so because they feel it to be the easiest thing they can do. They can read and write, they can afford any of the instruments of book writing such as pens, paper, comp...
Write because you love it, not because you want to become rich. Your story will be better for it.
You gotta dig through the shit to get to the gold.
From my writer's workshop, "Know when it's time to put everything you've got on the page. Then, rip open a vein and do it!
Live first, write second.
The biggest laughs are based on the biggest disappointments and the biggest fears.
Education is a cycle of reading, thinking and writing.
Writing isn't about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end it's about enriching the lives of those who will read your work, and enriching your own lif...
Let at least one word of my writings impregnate the reader's heart.
If the passage absolutely demands cursing, be moderate. A little of it goes a long way. I've seen beginning writers pepper curse words through sentence after sentence.'If you don't -blanking- get your...
On Writing: "A multitude of improbabilities can be forgiven as long as enough plausibility has been established.