We are now living in an age which doubts both fact and value. It is the life of this age that we wish to see and judge.

In the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities...it used to be thought a disadvantage to be misunderstood.

Writing all day every day is good, but it’s not good enough. You need to have your clone ghostwriting for you too.

A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give.

The pen is mightier than the sword unless it's a real sword in which case the guy with the pen should run away fast.

Writing a book is a blood sport. If it doesn't hurt when you're done, you're probably doing something wrong.

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

Words are sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.

That’s the magic of revisions – every cut is necessary, and every cut hurts, but something new always grows.

It's not the despair, Laura. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand. ~ Brian Stimpson, Clockwise

Pages and pages and pages with words all over the pages. My goodness, what fun. What fun to write whatever words occur.

I started writing to get women, or rather a particular woman, and I continue writing because it’s now a compulsion.

I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober.