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Yes Yeswhen God created love he didn't help most when God created dogs He didn't help dogs when God created plants that was average when God created h...more

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When I begin to doubt my ability to work the word, I simply read another writer and know I have nothing to worry about. My contest is only with myself...more

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take a writer away from his typewriterand all you have leftisthe sicknesswhich started himtypingin thebeginning

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Frankly, I was horrified by life, at what a man had to do simply in order to eat, sleep, and keep himself clothed. So I stayed in bed and drank. When ...more

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He asked, "What makes a man a writer?" "Well," I said, "it's simple. You either get it down on paper, or jump off a bridge.

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The secret is writing down one simple line after another.

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Don’t ever write a novel unless it hurts like a hot turd coming out

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nothing can save you except writing. it keeps the walls from failing.

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that your power of commandwith simple language wasone of the magnificent things ofour century.(from the poem: result)

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where some god pissed a rain of reason to make things grow only to die,

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There's no point in writing my kind of stuff, when they're printing that kind of stuff. So I gave up and started drinking.

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The writer has no responsibility other than to jack off in bed alone and write a good page.

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unless the sun inside you is burning your gut, don't do it

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Isolation is a gift. Everything else is just a test of your endurance. You will be alone with the Gods. Your nights will flame with fire.

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Writing is something that you don't know how to do. You sit down and it's something that happens, or it may not happen. So, how can you teach anybody ...more