As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.
Never be satisfied with a first draft. In fact, never be satisfied with your own stuff at all, until you're certain it's as good as your finite powers can enable it to be.
Forget the boring old dictum, 'Write about what you know. ' Instead, seek out an unknown yet knowable area of experience that's going to enhance your understanding of the world and write about that.
When an idea comes, spend silent time with it. Remember Keats's idea of Negative Capability and Kipling's advice to "drift, wait and obey". Along with your gathering of hard data, allow yourself also to dream your idea into being.
In the planning stage of a book, don't plan the ending. It has to be earned by all that will go before it.
Learn from cinema. Be economic with descriptions. Sort out the telling detail from the lifeless one. Write dialogue that people would actually speak.
Writing is a strange synthesis between the two parts of your mind: the analytical side and the side that knows nothing at all, and you have to allow the dreaming side free rein.
What religion cannot do, GRACE does! Grace empowered obedience beats striving and performing any time!! Every time!!
Any man who can look handsome in a dirty baseball suit is an Adonis. There is something about the baggy pants, and the Micawber-shaped collar, and the skull-fitting cap, and the foot or so of tan, or blue, or pink undershirt sleeve sticking out at the arms, that just naturally kills a man's best points.
All you need to make a film is a girl and a gun
Sundown, yellow moon, I replay the past I know every scene by heart, they all went by so fast