I Read Books I Hate All The

Do You Want To Do This Thing? Sit Down And Do It. Are You Not Writing? Keep Sitting There. Does It Not Feel Right? Keep Sitting There. Think Of Yourself As A Monk Walking The Path To Enlightenment. Think Of Yourself As A High School Senior Wanting To Be A Neurosurgeon. Is It Possible? Yes. Is There Some Shortcut? Not One I've Found. Writing Is A Miserable, Awful Business. Stay With It. It Is Better Than Anything In The World.

Thank God Roxane Coss Had Not Fallen In Love With One Of The Russians. She Doubted They Could Make It Up The Stairs Without Stopping For A Cigarette And Telling At Least One Loud Story That No One Could Understand.

You Can't Be A Good Person When You're Writing And A Bad Person To Your Husband Or A Bad Friend.

I Made A Startling Discovery. Time Spent Writing = Output Of Work. Amazing.

I Think People Become Consumed With Selling A Book When They Need To Be Consumed With Writing It.