"The past is never dead. It's not even past."
"Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain."
"In writing, you must kill all your darlings."
"You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore. "
"Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing."
"Pouring out liquor is like burning books."
"Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely."
"Most men are a little better than their circumstances give them a chance to be."
"I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth."
"I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it."
