“Don't worry about what you're writing or whether it's good or even whether it makes sense.”

“If you're dating a writer and they don't write about you - whether good or bad - then they don't love you. They just don't. Writers fall in love with the people we find inspiring.”

“Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.”

“For God sake write and don't worry about what the boys will say nor whether it will be a masterpiece nor what.I write one page of masterpiece to ninety one pages of shit. I try to put the shit in the wastebasket.”

“Don't worry whether or not I am now happy. Today is only chapter one, we have yet to write a book.”

“When youre sharing a foxhole with another man, you don't worry about what color he is, just whether or not he will protect your back”