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There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
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There is something very therapeutic about a piece of writing, many will tell you it is a quite cathartic experience.
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There was never a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn’t be. He is too many people if he’s any good.
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There’s always something to write about. If there’s not then you need to live life more aggressively.
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There”s only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that”s a writer sitting down to write.
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They can’t yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills him.
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This is pretty much what journals are all about, at least to me. I knew as I wrote them that even though they provided an excellent place for brain (and heart, and psyche) dump, they were mainly a map of me.
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This is something that I cannot get over — that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character.
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This is the gift all writers seek–to write language that incandesces yet does not melt.
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This is the sixth book I”ve written, which isn”t bad for a guy who”s only read two.
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This morning I took out a comma and this afternoon I put it back in again.
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Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility.
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To be a good diarist, one must have a snouty, sneaky mind.
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To endow the writer publicly with a good fleshly body, to reveal that he likes dry white wine and underdone steak, is to make even more miraculous for me, and of a more divine essence, the products of his art. Far from the details of his daily life bringing nearer to me the nature of his inspiration and making it clearer, it is the whole mystical singularity of his condition which the writer emphasizes by such confidences. For I cannot but ascribe to some superhumanly the existence of beings vast enough to wear blue pajamas at the very moment when they manifest themselves as universal conscience.
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To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself…Anybody can have ideas–the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.
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To serve the reader a fruitcake that you wouldn’t eat yourself, to build the reader an uncomfortable house you wouldn’t want to live in: this violates what seems to me the categorical imperative for any fiction writer. This is the ultimate breach of Contract.
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To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.
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To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author.
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Vigorous writing is concise.
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Volumes are now being written and spoken about the effect of the mind on the body — I wish more was thought of the effect of the body on the mind.
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