“If you really want to be a writer, nobody can stop you -- and if you don't, nobody can help you.”
“Nobody can stop you but you.”
“If you really want to do something, no one can stop you. But if you really don’t want to do something, no one can help you”
“If you don't go to bed at night with your bones aching from wanting it, you don't really want it. When your bones ache from wanting something, nothing and nobody will stop you getting it.”
“If you are going to be a writer there is nothing I can say to stop you; if you're not going to be a writer nothing I can say will help you. What you really need at the beginning is somebody to let you know that the effort is real.”
“Don't you know that nobody can make you be shit? You can only let it happen.”