I'm carrying so much pork, I'm beginning to get trichinosis.
In the end, the difference between a published writer and an unpublished one comes down to one thing: The unpublished writer gave up, and the published writer didn't.
many writers believe in arrival without leaving home. They believe in talent but not skill.
What I use from my own life is not the facts, it's the emotion. It's how I felt about something. It has nothing to do with facts at all. You can get those anywhere. It's the feelings of childhood that you need to know.
Only the unique is universal.
It is easy to write when you don't know how.
Writing is something warm and dependable to snuggle up to when everything else is in flux. It's a little secret that you carry with you in public - the knowledge that you alone have the ability to escape to a wonderland where you can make anything happen.
The wretched bodies of the condemned shall simmer and blaze in those living fires.
A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you.
I suppose that I am ambitious.
It is hard to go beyond your public. If they are satisfied with cheap performance, you will not easily arrive at better. If they know what is good, and require it. you will aspire and burn until you achieve it. But from time to time, in history, men are born a whole age too soon.