“Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing.”
“I had to educate him that there was no such thing as writer's block, that writers write when they write, and when they don't, they don't.”
“Don't say you're a writer if you're not writing. Even if you're writing, don't call yourself a writer. Say instead, 'I write.' It's the verb that's important, not the noun.”
“I am not retiring. Writers don't retire. Writers never stop writing.”
“Writer's Block is just an excuse by people who don't write for not writing.”
“Writers don't write from experience, although many are hesitant to admit that they don't. ...If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.”