“There is no right or wrong way to write a novel. Each journey is different for every individual work and for every writer. The first error is never to begin; the second is never to finish.”

“Writers often torture themselves trying to get the words right. Sometimes you must lower your expectations and just finish it.”

“A writer always writes.”

“Writing a story, regardless of length, begins always with a single word.”

“Nothing's a better cure for writer's block than to eat ice cream right out of the carton.”

“You can be a writer who doesn't read everyday. But you're not fooling anyone. It shows, rather embarrassingly, in your work.”

“I've found the best way to revise your own work is to pretend that somebody else wrote it and then to rip the living shit out of it.”