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What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.

A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.

Don’t let mental blocks control you. Set yourself free. Confront your fear and turn the mental blocks into building blocks.

When male authors write love stories, the heroine tends to end up dead.

If you have a dream, don’t just sit there. Gather courage to believe that you can succeed and leave no stone unturned to make it a reality.

The world’s greatest achievers have been those who have always stayed focussed on their goals and have been consistent in their efforts.

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.

Writers don't make any money at all. We make about a dollar. It is terrible. But then again we don't work either. We sit around in our underwear until noon then go downstairs and make coffee, fry some eggs, read the paper, read part of a book, smell the book, wonder if perhaps we ourselves should work on our book, smell the book again, throw the book across the room because we are quite jealous that any other person wrote a book, feel terribly guilty about throwing the schmuck's book across the room because we secretly wonder if God in heaven noticed our evil jealousy, or worse, our laziness. We then lie across the couch facedown and mumble to God to forgive us because we are secretly afraid He is going to dry up all our words because we envied another man's stupid words. And for this, as I said, we are paid a dollar. We are worth so much more.

What is your advice to young writers?” “Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes.

It was one of the dullest speeches I ever heard. The Agee woman told us for three quarters of an hour how she came to write her beastly book, when a simple apology was all that was required.

If you were born with the ability to change someone’s perspective or emotions, never waste that gift. It is one of the most powerful gifts God can give—the ability to influence.

Opportunity may knock only once but temptation leans on the door bell

I love words.  I crave descriptions that overwhelm my imagination with vivid detail.  I dwell on phrases that make my heart thrum.  I cherish expressions that pierce my emotions and force the tears to spill over.   In essence, I long for a writer's soul sealed in ink on the page.

You must never wander for a chance to beloved from the same hatred you once hide.

Sand lines my soul which is filled with the breath of the ocean.

It's better not to know authors personally, because the real person never corresponds to the image you form of him from reading his books.

The life we’re given is on a thread, so wear it well.

At the end of the day your ability to connect with your readers comes down to how you make them feel.