“If the voices in your head make you cry, you're a lunatic. Put their words on paper, and you're a writer.”
“The point of freewriting is to get past the voice inside your head that tells you your ideas aren't good enough, your words aren't good enough, you're no writer and so forth.”
“You are crazy!" whispered Meggie. "You're a total lunatic!"But her opinion did not impress Fenoglio in the slightest. "So what? All writers are lunatics!”
“You know you're a writer when the words don't stop!”
“Put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it."(Casual Chance, 1964)”
“Fear is felt by writers at every level. Anxiety accompanies the first word they put on paper and the last.”