“Good writers touch life often.”

“The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.”

“The more pores, the more truthfully recorded details of life per square inch you can get on a sheet of paper, the more 'literary' you are... The good writers touch life often.”

“Why live? Life was its own answer. Life was the propagation of more life and the living of as good a life as possible.”

“Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You’ve got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it.”

“The multicolored or grey lights touching their faces, but never really touching them...”

“Write a thousand words a day and in three years you'll be a writer!”