Martin Amis

You write the book you want to read. That’s my rule.

You have to have a huge appetite for solitude.

Write in long-hand: when you scratch out a word, it still exists there on the page. On the computer, when you delete a word it disappears forever. This is important because usually your first instinct is the right one.

Use any anxiety you have about your writing — or your life — as fuel: “Ambition and anxiety: that’s the writer’s life.”

-Martin Amis