“You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die.”
“Writing starts with living.—Rumors of Water: Thoughts on Creativity & Writing”
“Writing starts with living.”
“live to the fullest or die;and die you will anyway, so start living!”
“Stop writing what you know and start writing what you want to know.”
“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.”