Some of my greatest successes in business are simply the result of taking huge, calculated risks.
Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it.
No book can ever be finished. While working on it we learn just enough to find it immature the moment we turn away from it
I know, not everyone will like what I write, but writing is not about trying to please everybody.
In the best interest of profession, a writer should sometimes refrain from writing.
I like to make blank pages darker. It's this thing I do.
Read and write all the time. Never stop sending out your stuff. If you're constantly writing and sending stuff out, eventually someone will bite.
I lose it when I can't write. I feel sad and confused and fucked off.
The self-addressed stamped envelope. The representation of everything that was wrong with the old publishing industry.
To increase the chances of a writer trying to kill themselves, cut off their hands.
The writer has to die to give birth to the intellectual in the service of the wretched of the earth.
Do what you love, especially if your sharing the word
Most people assume I write at night because of the kind of books I write, but I can shut out the light with my mind.
Have you noticed how prejudice still exists today? For instance, now they challenge famous people for their past achievements: People like Christopher Columbus and now even Vince Lombardi. Nothing sur...
When people say, 'you're so young to be a writer,' I always reply, 'I started young because I've got a lot to write.
Stop now and decide to never worry again about what others think about you.
I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing this.
I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing
By living, thinking, even dreaming the story in one continuous process, ideas came faster and faster. Sometimes the typewriter keys would fly so fast that I wondered if my fingers could keep up with t...
Toni Morrison said, The function of freedom is to free someone else, and if you are no longer wracked or in bondage to a person or a way of life, tell your story. Risk freeing someone else. Not everyo...
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