There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
I try to create sympathy for my characters, then turn the monsters loose.
Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.
If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.
Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
A writer can do nothing for men more necessary, satisfying, than just simply to reveal to them the infinite possibilities of their own souls.
Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.
Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.
It begins with a character, usually, and once he stands up on his feet and begins to move, all I can do is trot along behind him with a paper and pencil trying to keep up long enough to put down what he says and does.
If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use.
Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy.
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.
The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.
Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy.
I have been successful probably because I have always realized that I knew nothing about writing and have merely tried to tell an interesting story entertainingly.
Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.