“Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.”

“But neither of us knows, because a fight's worth nothing if you know from the start that you're going to win it.”

“You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing.”

“When you start getting into the process of writing, then the characters start coming alive. And then they tell you what to write.”

“You're going to write straight and simple and good now. That's the start.'
'What if I'm not straight and simple and good? Do you think I can write that way?'
'Write how you are but make it straight.”

“Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it's time you took the pen from his hand and started writing it yourself.”

“nothing can save
you
except
writing.
it keeps the walls
from
failing.”

“: You ought to go beyond the corporeal things and explore the divinity that is residing within you.”

“When you blame yourself, you learn from it. If you blame someone else, you don't learn nothing, cause hey, it's not your fault, it's his fault, over there.”

“You learn nothing if you carry with you a journalistic system of values, which is invented to save reporters from experience.”