It isn’t the reader’s responsibility to drag meaning out of the quagmire of your words. It’s the writer’s responsibility to create meaning out of thin air.

Being a writer is like being in a relationship. If you're not 100% committed to your writing, you will fail to be the best that you can be.

Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400 pages and write just one page for each day, it helps. Then when it gets finished you are always surprised." - John Steinbeck from the Fall 1975 issue of The Paris Review

Writing is a physical art. And writing a book is a lot more like making a complex sculpture out of bronze than writing a whole bunch of reports. What's in your head does not count, not for sculpture, not for book writing. Pencil on paper is what matters. Words on paper, pages and pages, chapter after chapter.

Writers often torture themselves trying to get the words right. Sometimes you must lower your expectations and just finish it.

Every good story needs a good ending. Don't write the beginning of a novel without knowing the end of it.

There is no right or wrong way to write a novel. Each journey is different for every individual work and for every writer. The first error is never to begin; the second is never to finish.

Be a good reader first if you wish to become a good writer.

Clichés are the viruses that infect your writing with diseases.

Tell a story in fewer and simpler words.