Whenever there's something wrong with your writing, suspect that there's something wrong with your thinking.

The difference between a novelist and someone who tinkers around with writing is this: novelists finish their books.

Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they're not absurd.

First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.

Magazines all too frequently lead to books and should be regarded by the prudent as the heavy petting of literature.

My lips are fierce with passion. My heart spins fiery beats. A rhythm lives within my fingers and dances in my feet.

Writing is hard, but I don’t want to kill myself trying to write. Not unless I’m writing a suicide note.

When you look for a man- what you want to look for is a man with the heart of a poor boy and the mind of a conquero

Language is the mother, not the handmaiden, of thought; words will tell you things you never thought or felt before.

That's one of the tragedies of this life - that the men who are most in need of a beating up are always enormous.

Timmy, who made a daring escape, also made a mistake of paying the taxi driver with a check made out of toilet paper.

Many women arrange their lives around the people they love. Unfortunately, that arrangement takes up most of our days.

I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being concious of living.

The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon.

I intend all my characters must escape from impossible situations; if they are not in trouble, then as a writer, I am.