Write to relish life, not to survive. All you need is a paying job for the latter.

While it may seem unacceptable to struggling young writers, my advice to every writer is to write for oneself and one's readers, and never for a publisher. Publishers will handle writers' works like commodities, pretty much like pancakes for movies and TV.

This, however, is a realization that comes to every writer only upon maturity--the maturity of himself and the maturity of his works.

The worst thing I have known editors to do is try to change writers' lifestyles and values.

It is the duty of the writer, not the editor, to shape the world.

Even crime is a writer, for policemen and detectives arrive upon a scene to read what it has written.

Whenever you read another writer's work, first open your mind and appreciate it as the writer wrote it, not as you would have written it or as how you wish he had written it.

A playwright's first play will always be autobiographical, no matter how hard he tries to disguise it.

A novelist's first novel, on the other hand, will always be about everything he wishes he ever had but does not have.

Any piece of paper is worth saving as long as you can still write on it.

It is good practice to sit in front of a blank sheet of paper and a pen in your hand or in front of a blank Word document and wait for something to come through. The more you do it, the more your subconscious will become facile writing for you.

Rain writes, as does everything in Nature, for Nature records her history and her thoughts more prolifically than human beings do. You can read Rain's writing on the barks of trees, on stones, on wet earth, and in scribbles that she leaves on every dusty surface.

Learn from the intelligence of Rain, for she reads your writing too.

A writer's note pad is an accurate reflection of his/her mind.