It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.

I trust my characters. They know their stories better than I do.

Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation.

You need three things to become a successful novelist: talent, luck and discipline. Discipline is the one element of those three things that you can control, and so that is the one that you have to focus on controlling, and you just have to hope and trust in the other two.

I came on the old and best ways of writing through ignorance and experiment and was startled when truths leaped out of brushes like quail before gunshot.

The hard part is putting one word after another.