“For a writer, every rejection is a small cut … until he bleeds to death.”
“Dedication. DEDICATION. That is the only way to become a writer. Write every day. Write until your fingers bleed, your eyes bleed, your soul bleeds. From that blood, stories are born. It's worth it.”
“There are three certainties in a writer's life: death, taxes, and rejection letters.”
“Life cannot defeat a writer who is in love with writing - for life itself is a writer's love until death.”
“He was outwardly calm but inwardly bleeding to death.”
“It was as though our love were a small creature caught in a trap and bleeding to death: I had to shut my eyes and wring its neck.”