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Keep your hands moving. Writing is rewriting.

Once you start writing something obsessively, it's almost like someone has to rip it from your hands in order for you to put it down.

Writing is like playing golf - you have to keep working at your swing.

Writing is like a 'lust,' or like 'scratching when you itch.' Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and when it does come, I, for one, must get it out.

I write in a very strange way. Things are very fragmentary for a very long time, and then they come together very quickly near the end of the process.

I'm not too fond of the hard work and the constant battle with self-doubt that goes on when I write, but I figure that's part of the territory.

I don't believe for one moment you can write well what you wouldn't read for pleasure.

My writing is progressing slowly, but at least it's moving forward. I'm sure that's the case. The only problem is that I'm never absolutely certain that what I've written is any good.

Writing is a discipline: it's almost all about holding back.