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Writing provides no guarantees. And writers who stay with writing do it for reasons that are larger than self.

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

The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.

But I think everybody should write. I think those people with stories who don't write should be stomped on.

Writing is taking a risk, and it is actually fighting invisible and invincible enemies. They are over-confidence, stupidity, expectation and narcissism.

I suspect that writer's block afflicts mainly people who have some stable and ample source of income outside of writing. So far it hasn't been a problem.

Writing only leads to more writing.

Writing is sometimes a balancing act between keeping things easily readable and being accurate.

Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.

I think the most dangerous influence for a young writer is to be treated with cynicism or discouragement.