You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or despair ... Come to it any way but lightly.

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.

He may take long walksin the raining darkalmost aimlesslyto a spot of soaked grassin a neighbor’s open field.He’s decided this is the placefor you and him to meet again.

Paranoia is just having the right information.

I crouch in cornersThe infection is widespreadLove epidemic

If practice makes perfect, and no one's perfect, then why practice?

Even if God never did another good thing in our lives, we could spend the rest of this life praising Him for what He has already done.

You got shot at and you still got me an air conditioner.

[When asked how many husbands she had had:] My own, or other people's?

The important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle.

Mankind's greatest error, the biggest deception of the past thousand years is this: to confuse poverty with stupidity.

Lies exist only to be extinguished.