Just write. That's my only tip. And read. I guess that's two.

Attempting to express a person’s objective reality and subjective state of mind with the written word is an endless task because writing alters our perception of reality and amends our mental equilibrium.

No art ever came out of not risking your neck.

Yes, writing is that easy. Yes, writing is that hard. But if you want to do it you can. Only you can stop you.

I’m sorry if...I get too personal, if I make you uncomfortable, but writing is like one of the seven deadly sins, like Sharing on Mr. Rogers, and once you get the bug you’re trapped in The Neighborhood of Make-Believe forever.

What a lover of words and their beauty discovers. . .is that there is literally a word for every object, material or immaterial, every relation, and every process that human beings have experienced. Because that is what words are: the crystallization in language of thousands of years of experience across numerous cultures and civilizations, each word being the most tangible flesh in which thought is tabernacled.

Sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know, or an imagined person-and write to that one.

Writing is easy. Writing well is hard work.

Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination.

...at seventeen I tried to write poetry confining myself solely to Anglo-Saxon words - don't know if it helped, but it made me more concrete ...