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If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it’s to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.
I have long felt that any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has just put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae or banana split.
Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
I get up in the morning, torture a typewriter until it screams, then stop.
Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I’m writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I’m going to play for the opening sequence.
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.
Thank your readers and the critics who praise you, and then ignore them. Write for the most intelligent, wittiest, wisest audience in the universe: Write to please yourself.
Ever heard of a carpenter not going to work because he has “carpenter’s block”? If a writer can’t write, it’s because he doesn’t really want to, he isn’t ready to get it on paper or he’s just plain lazy.
What I loved most about calling myself a reporter was that it gave me an excuse to show up anyplace.
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.
No writer has ever yet been known to hang himself as long as he had another chapter left.


























