“If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the tools to write.”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“Writing is a lonely job. Having someone who believes in you makes a lot if difference. They don't have to makes speeches. Just believing is usually enough.”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“Words have weight.”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“It seems to occur to few of the attendees [of a writing retreat] that if you have a feel you just can't describe, you might just be, I don't know, kind of like, my sense of it is, maybe in the wrong fucking class.”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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