“It s a big world for the idiots. If you re a writer, there are not many cities where you can go and feel normal.”
“I m not negative, pessimistic, angry, antisocial or schizophrenic. I m a writer, and entitled to all that with pride.”
“A writer who rejects happiness is like an astronomer who rejects the stars.”
“The truth is that most writers are needy.”
“I have this rage that I can t explain. It s sad.”
“Writers are compulsive liars desperately trying to tell themselves the truth.”
“Some of the best writing is embarrassing; that s all there is to it.”
“To write is not just seeing the world through a kaleidoscope of possibilities, but a means to shift the tides of color that exist within it.”
“People who understand everything get no stories.”
“Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spend the rest of the day putting the pieces together.”
“My favourite piece of information is that Branwell Brontë, brother of Emily and Charlotte, died standing up leaning against a mantle piece, in order to prove it could be done. This is not quite true, in fact. My absolute favourite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they frequently grab their own arms and legs instead of tree limbs, and fall out of trees. However, this is not relevant to what is currently on my mind because it concerns sloths, whereas the Branwell Brontë piece of information concerns writers and feeling like death and doing things to prove they can be done, all of which are pertinent to my current situation to a degree that is, frankly, spooky.”
“In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book.”
“Many people hear voices when no one is there. Some of them are called mad and are shut up in rooms where they stare at the walls all day. Others are called writers and they do pretty much the same thing.”
“Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious. When you re conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring about the truth, you have the ability to throw the lights on for your reader. He or she will recognize his or her life and truth in what you say, in the pictures you have painted, and this decreases the terrible sense of isolation that we have all had too much of.”
“I think writers are the most narcissistic people. Well, I musn t say this, I like many of them, a great many of my friends are writers.”
“Writers write while dreamers procastinate. ”
“A novelist can’t be without a kimono and pen!(Shigure)”