Ignore people who say you can't do it, even if this person is yourself.

There’s really only one good writing habit: You must write constantly.

A writer will always be a writer. It's not a choice, it's a destiny.

You have to be in your middle thirties before you have anything worth saying.

Fiction is a careful combination of observation, inspiration, and imagination.

...if you want your own distinctive voice, you first have to become someone...

How do you paint a writer's block?Just fill it with fifty shades of black.

All great stories began as shitty first drafts.There are no exceptions to this.

The sooner you finish procrastinating, the sooner you can get back to your art.

She thought a writer should work harder writing a book than she did reading it.

Don’t stop writing until someone pries the pen from your cold, dead hands.

For me, art that's alive and urgent is about what it is to be a human being.

If you don’t make time for writing, writing won’t make time for you.

Writing is the neck muscle allowing us to see the important stuff in our periphery.

Fiction must convince our bodies for it to have any chance of convincing our minds.