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The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you're going to do it anyway.

Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing.

I wrote one terrible manuscript after another for a decade and I guess they gradually got a little less terrible. But there were many, many unpublished short stories, abandoned screenplays and novels... a Library of Congress worth of awful literature.

The idea that you're not a writer until you're published is a lie.

I haven't written anything in four years. I'm sort of dried up.

Write a lot and don't think about publishing - just the writing.

Better that you should take the chance of trying something that is close to your heart, you think is what you want to write, and if they do not publish it, put it in your drawer. But maybe another day will come and you will find a place to put that.

A writer without a reader doesn't exist.

Yeah, writers do hate writing.