Write what you want to write, not what others want you to write, and write as much as you want to.

No individual, group, institution, community, society, or nation can ever succeed in tearing down a true artist.

It is difficult to respect literary critics who are heavily in debt, have vices, live in destitute homes, and have dysfunctional relationships.

Why don't they fix their lives and situations first before anything else?

A fountain pen is a writer's jewel. That is why many writers keep more than one fountain pen in their treasury.

Write, and keep on writing.

Do not allow critics to tell the world what literature should be.

It is the writers who should be doing that.

It is not so much what a writer really writes but what he really means that counts, because everything is within a particular context.

Using a fountain pen is the ultimate reflection of a writer's sophistication.

Devote most of your time primarily to your family and only secondarily to your art.

You can create as much art as you want for yourself, but God creates for you only one family.

There are art academies and creative writing centers, but all these teach theory, history, materials, and techniques. Graduating from these institutions means nothing if the graduate's art does not come from his heart, for only when it comes from his heart is it authentic and original.

An artist draws his personal truth only from his heart, and his social truth from his firsthand experiences. He otherwise becomes a collective carbon copy of all the teachers he ever had.

Many of my contemporaries believe that to be published, to be awarded, and to have one's plays produced are the hallmarks of a successful writer.

Having been there and done that, a successful writer, to me, is someone who writes whatever he wants no matter what and whether his works will be published, produced, or not, AND, AT THE SAME TIME, not be a starving artist but one who enjoys life, has a good house and home, has a good family, buys whatever he wants, and is able to STOP WRITING AND DO SOMETHING ELSE at any time.

Why write AT THE EXPENSE OF ALL THOSE THINGS I MENTIONED? It doesn't make sense.

When someone criticizes your work, write ten more works.

Never let criticism stop you from writing, even if it means writing what other people hate. That would be like having a car mishap and never driving again.

Writing is everyone's final duty, for it is writing that records history.

Your e-mail message:

"Hello sir here I am again  full of questions. Your suggestion sir about sublimating helped me a lot. I chose sir to write stories. Fictional stories. 

"I love stories sir for they helped me live in this world more , to keep me more in tune with my surroundings; fiction they may be but  believe that fiction consists of lies that tell the truth. Fiction released from me my animal desires. It feels like I am purging my darkness. 

"But sir I have been suffering these anxieties and ocd  and I have tried sports as a sort of relaxation  but still stories are the best for me. 

" Suddenly sir I have had this thought: why do I care about my characters if they are not real? They are nothing but the products of my imagination and that line of thinking has caused me to fall into a sort of pseudo metanoia  . I know deep down that these thoughts are valid but I still choose fiction or stories as the outlets for my confessions. 

"Could you recommend sir anything? Any methods?  or maybe  I am just over thinking.

"thanks sir."

My reply:

Hello _________________!

A writer is a god who creates a world and populates it with his characters, all of whom are extensions of his Inner Self. It is natural for a writer, therefore, to care a lot not only for that world but for the characters he designated to live in that world.

Always alternate writing with reading or some other activity, such as sports. Sometimes you need to rest from what you like doing best.

Paint, and paint as well as you can, but do not get fixated on it. Your next obligation is to write.

Ordinarily, everyone needs to undergo secondary reflection in order to remember, backtrack, or retrace something.

Creative writers, however, need to undergo tertiary reflection in order to produce their works.

Every writer is chastised by poetic justice.

Be a good father and grandfather before you even begin dreaming of being a good writer.