You Can't Write ... On The Strength

You Can't Write ... On The Strength Of Influence. You Can Only Write A Good Story Or A Good Novel By Yourself.

Marry Somebody You Love And Who Thinks You Being A Writer's A Good Idea.

Cynicism Makes You Feel Smart, I Know It, Even When You Aren't Smart.

Finally I Do Like Best Of All Stories Whose Necessity Is In The Implied Recognition That Someplace Out There There Exists An Urgency-a Chaos-, An Insanity, A Misrule Of Some Dire Sort Which Can End Life As We Know It But For The Fact That This Very Story Is Written, This Order Found, This Style Determined, The Worst Averted, And We Are Beneficiaries Of That Order By Being Readers

Reading Is Probably What Leads Most Writers To Writing.