Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don’t feel I should be doing something else.
Thank your readers and the critics who praise you, and then ignore them. Write for the most intelligent, wittiest, wisest audience in the universe: Write to please yourself.
Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
My aim is to put down what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way I can tell it.
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.
If you haven’t got an idea, start a story anyway. You can always throw it away, and maybe by the time you get to the fourth page you will have an idea, and you’ll only have to throw away the first three pages.
Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.
I do not over-intellectualize the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.
Do not place a photograph of your favorite author on your desk, especially if the author is one of the famous ones who committed suicide.
Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.
Every writer with half a brain knows to surround himself or herself with editors who are smarter, far more articulate and infinitely better looking.

























