The scariest moment is always just before you start.

you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.

The road to hell is paved with adverbs.

When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you’re done, you have to step back and look at the forest.

Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.

Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.

Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.

The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn’t very interesting.

Symbolism exists to adorn and enrich, not to create an artificial sense of profundity.

The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.

To write is human, to edit is divine.

CONCERNED BUT NOT CONSUMED!

What can a man do with music who is not benevolent?

To me that's what art is about - when you don't really have any control over your desires to do it.

The difference between a grave and a rut are the dimensions.

She is kind and very beautiful. But she can be so cruel and it comes so suddenly and such birds that fly, dipping and hunting, with their small sad voices are made too delicately for the sea.

In the design of fission reactors man was not an innovator but an unwitting imitator of nature.

Women don't get the credit they deserve.

Seek art from every time and place, in any form, to connect with those who really move you.

There is no point in going into a business unless you can make a radical difference in other people’s lives.