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What can't be said can be written. Because writing is a silent act, a labor from the head to the hand.

The artist deals in what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.

I'm one of the writers that would die if I didn't say what I needed to say. For me, it's a matter of survival to write.

Obviously, a writer can't know everything about what she writes. It's impossible.

A writer doesn't write about just anything. He writes about things he has an affinity for.

The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.

Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.

I can't write; I don't think I'm even particularly good at telling a writer what's good or what's missing. So, actually having someone who can do that is a godsend.

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

The things that block a writer are not the lack of words, but the same things that block all people - the difficulties of life.