Writing inspiration: There are various ways to be inspired. This cartoon, “Shoe,” was published on June 10, 2024. Cosmo Read More...
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
If the sex scene doesn’t make you want to do it — whatever it is they’re doing — it hasn’t been written right.
No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader’s intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.
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.
If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it’s to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.
Editor: A person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
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.
No writer has ever yet been known to hang himself as long as he had another chapter left.
It is only natural to pattern yourself after someone. But you can’t just copy someone. If you like someone’s work, the important thing is to be exposed to everything that person has been exposed to.
My aim is to put down what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way I can tell it.
If you have an idea that you genuinely think is good, don’t let some idiot talk you out of it.
I get up in the morning, torture a typewriter until it screams, then stop.
























