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A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
A true author, no matter the medium, is an artist with godlike knowledge of his subject, and the proof of his authorship is that his pages smack of authority.
You may be able to take a break from writing, but you won’t be able to take a break from being a writer.
I have a structured songwriting process. I start with the music and try to come up with musical ideas, then the melody, then the hook, and the lyrics come last.
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
Critics are people who sit on the mountaintop and look down on the battlefield. When the fighting is finished, they take it upon themselves to come down from the mountain and shoot the survivors.
If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it’s to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.
In Hollywood, the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can’t read. If they could read their stuff, they’d stop writing.
I haven’t got 10 rules that guarantee success, though I promise I’d share them if I did. The truth is that I found success by stumbling off alone in a direction most people thought was a dead end, breaking all the 1990s shibboleths about children’s books in the process.
My aim is to put down what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way I can tell it.
Anecdotes don’t make good stories. Generally, I dig down underneath them so far that the story that finally comes out is not what people thought their anecdotes were about.
Reading and weeping opens the door to one’s heart, but writing and weeping opens the window to one’s soul.
Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.
I get up in the morning, torture a typewriter until it screams, then stop.
























