Creative Quotations from . . . Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the yard and shot it. To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.
Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music.
If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself. Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.