“...no good writing flows from a polluted well - you can write about monsters, but you can't be one...”
“You can't write ... on the strength of influence. You can only write a good story or a good novel by yourself.”
“It is said that you can't write without a reader. The opposite holds true as well; you can't read without a writer. But if as a single, creative person you are one in the same, then, well.....problem solved! Great writing is born from that which we personally long to read.”
“not writing is not good but trying to write when you can't is worse.”
“Writing is the starting point from which all goodness (and crappiness) flows.”
“You will learn more about writing from one hour of reading than you will in six hours of writing.”