“You know you're a writer when the words don't stop!”

“Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.”

“Writers don't own their words. Since when do words belong to anybody. "Your very own words," indeed ! And who are you?”

“If you are going to be a writer there is nothing I can say to stop you; if you're not going to be a writer nothing I can say will help you. What you really need at the beginning is somebody to let you know that the effort is real.”

“ya better come inside when you're ready tobut no chance if ya don't wanna danceyou like four letter words when you're ready tobut then you won't 'cos you know that you can”

“Step out from behind the words. When you're a writer you can imagine that the words speak for you and are you, but they're not. You are this living breathing bad hair day kind of person.”