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Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about.

I can't speak in too much detail about a book or story I'm working on because I find that it takes the energy out of my writing. When I begin to work, it's like a soda bottle that's been jostled before it's opened. There's a lot of pent up energy in there. I have to let it out slowly, carefully, so that I can turn it into a written work.

My energies get used up quite quickly, and the psychic space I'm in when I write is a very lonely one, so I found that harder and harder to get back to.

I'm using more energy than ever.

What I've learned is that you get better at writing by writing, and that 'youthful energy' will only get you so far.

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

There's a practical problem about time and energy, and a more subtle problem of what it does to a writer's head, to continually analyze why they write, where it all comes from, where it's going to.

When I write, when I'm going hot, I don't want to write more than four hours in a row. After that, you're pushing it.

Your mind burns a lot of calories. Writing can feel like a physical workout.

As soon as I began, it seemed impossible to write fast enough - I wrote faster than I would write a letter - two thousand to three thousand words in a morning, and I cannot help it.