I wrote a novel because I had a yen to do it. I believe this is sufficient reason to set out to tell a story.

The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.

If you don't write when you don't have time for it, you won't write when you do have time for it.

But still I feel I waste a lot of time leaning on my elbow and thinking to myself, "alright sucker, now what?

Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't write, can surely review.

True ease in writing comes from art not chance As those move easiest who have learned to dance Alexander Pope

I can write better than anybody who can write faster and I can write faster than anybody who can write bette

Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.

In fact, one could argue that the skill of the fiction writer boils down to the ability to exploit intensity.

Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.

The writer's life: Hard days, lots of work, no money, too much silence. Nobody's fault. You chose it.

Aha! Today I shall become an author! And I will auth and auth and auth and make a squillion dollars, whoopee!

It just happens to be the way that I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them.

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.

I’m trying to translate what my cat says and put it in a book, but how many homonyms are there for meow?