You have to finish things — that’s what you learn from, you learn by finishing things.

Yesterday is gone, and tomorrow is beyond our reach. The best time to write is now, in the present.

Does rejection ever get any easier? Only if we decide not to invest emotion in the dismissal…

I recommend writing standing up from time to time. It's easier to dance when you finish writing.

Every word I write is a seed that I may nurture into a small, beautiful poem or a tall, soaring tree.

Biographies are best when written chronologically. Boring people don't make for good biographies.

Daily life is always extraordinary when rendered precisely. We can unlock our lives with a pencil tip.

A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.

Your writing should be filled with simple complexities and complex simplicities. Because that is life.

...a writer should not so much write as embroider on paper; the work should be painstaking, laborious.

Coincidences to get characters into trouble are great; coincidences to get them out of it are cheating.

...some writers closet themselves - I write wherever I am because that's where life is happening ...

Passionate attraction to someone of the opposite sex will make a hero or a fool of a novelist each time.

Always carry with you a pen and a notebook or a journal to write the thoughts that flashes in a moments.

Writer's block isn't always a problem. It can be a process of writing that helps us write better.