“My lips are fierce with passion. My heart spins fiery beats. A rhythm lives within my fingers and dances in my feet.”

“As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers, so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.”

“Sometimes writing everyday is like pulling teeth, painful, but necessary.”

“Writing is the only art form where a good number of the artists make a slice of their living criticizing one another in print, in public. ”

“There are very few professions in which people just sit down and think hard for five or six hours a day all by themselves. Of course it’s why you want to become a writer — because you have the liberty to do that, but once you have the liberty you also have the obligation to do it.”

“Do all the work while you still have strength.”

“Let your story grow. Let it surprise you, and it will certainly surprise your readers.”

“You can write nothing of value unless you give yourself wholly to the the theme — and when you so give yourself — you lose appetite ans sleep — it cannot be helped –”