“How can you expect to write if you can't cry....Ling”
“Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.”
“You can't write ... on the strength of influence. You can only write a good story or a good novel by yourself.”
“...no good writing flows from a polluted well - you can write about monsters, but you can't be one...”
“I had hardly begun to readI asked how can you ever be surethat what you write is reallyany good at all and he said you can'tyou can't you can never be sureyou die without knowingwhether anything you wrote was any goodif you have to be sure don't write”