Forget market or publishers or whatever. Just write with fire and joy, and in my own experience, those are the stories of mine people have wanted to read.

If you set out to write an adjective novel, you're setting out to write a mediocre novel; your allegiance is to the adjective, not to the story, and then that just sucks all the joy right out of it.

I skate just to satisfy my own desire and not care about other people's desire for me to do well.

I formed a resolution to never write a word I did not want to write; to think only of my own tastes and ideals, without a thought of those of editors or publishers.

I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure.

Stories are the wildest things of all, the monster rumbled. Stories chase and bite and hunt.