“If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!”

“Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work.”

“It is by sitting down to write every morning that one becomes a writer.”

“Writing is hard work. But if you want to become a writer you will become one. Nothing will stop you.”

“Here are the two states in which you may exist: person who writes, or person who does not. If you write: you are a writer. If you do not write: you are not. Aspiring is a meaningless null state that romanticizes Not Writing. It’s as ludicrous as saying, “I aspire to pick up that piece of paper that fell on the floor.” Either pick it up or don’t. I don’t want to hear about how your diaper’s full. Take it off or stop talking about it.”

“Stop talking about it and just WRITE!”