“Writing is the starting point from which all goodness (and crappiness) flows.”
“...no good writing flows from a polluted well - you can write about monsters, but you can't be one...”
“Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.”
“There comes a point at which you stop writing and think all the more”
“If you’re going to be a writer, the first essential is just to write. Do not wait for an idea. Start writing something and the ideas will come. You have to turn the faucet on before the water starts to flow.”
“I am all for curses and superstition, but there's a point at which they start getting in the way. That point had arrived.”