“You are writing for yourself.”

“You can't write a script in your mind and then force yourself to follow it. You have to let yourself be.”

“Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself.”

“To write something you have to risk making a fool of yourself.”

“If you write with passion in your own style, you will make a place for yourself”

“In the deepest hour of the night, confess to yourself that you would die if you were forbidden to write. And look deep into your heart where it spreads its roots, the answer, and ask yourself, must I write?”

“i believe that basically you write for two people; yourself to try and make it absolutely perfect; or if not that then wonderful. then you write for who you love whether they can read or write or not and whether they are alive or dead.”

“Writers are there to write, not experience things. If you want to experience things, become a pirate or a Bookhunter. If you want to write, write. If you can't find the makings of a story inside yourself, you won't find them anywhere.”

“The idea that you write to express yourself seems to me revolting. The idea that you write to glorify or to make glorious the art of expressiveness seems to me spot on.”

“You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. What you say is completely up to you.”