“You either have to write or you shouldn't be writing. That's all.”

“Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either.”

“You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know”

“If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are gone, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.”

“In this world you either read or write, and writers write out of contempt for their colleagues, out of a desire to have something good to read once in a while.”

“If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.”

“All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence you know.”

“In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book.”

“If you write for yourself, you'll reach all the people you want to write for.”

“I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, "Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence you know."”