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Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don’t see any.
If the sex scene doesn’t make you want to do it — whatever it is they’re doing — it hasn’t been written right.
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
I do not over-intellectualize the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.
If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it’s to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.
Keep a small can of WD-40 on your desk — away from any open flames — to remind yourself that if you don’t write daily, you will get rusty.
Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade, just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.
My aim is to put down what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way I can tell it.
There are three primal urges in human beings: Food, sex, and rewriting someone else’s play.
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.
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous.
Every writer with half a brain knows to surround himself or herself with editors who are smarter, far more articulate and infinitely better looking.

























