I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet.

Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?

Just tell the truth, and they'll accuse you of writing black humor.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.

This morning I took out a comma and this afternoon I put it back again.

CALVIN:Our hero regains consciousness at the feet of a sarcastic alien.

If you can quit, then quit. If you can't quit, you're a writer.

I got this story from someone who had no business in the telling of it.

If you don’t write the book you have to write, everything breaks.

My best advice to writers is get yourself born in an interesting place.

If this typewriter can't do it, then fuck it, it can't be done.

Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?

I give myself to adjectives body and soul, I die with pleasure for them.

Writing is a vessel...with readers the ocean and authors as its sails...