Write a lot and hit the streets. A writer who doesn't keep up with what's out there ain't gonna be out there.

Ask mullah why they issue fatwas against me- do they read my books? No Can they show lines that hurt their sentiments? No

Whenever I didn't know what to write next, I put a swift river in front of his horse and sent the two of them across!

Read everything. Read fiction and non-fiction, read hot best sellers and the classics you never got around to in college.

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.

I thought about writing the character as male, but then I would be forced to portray him as a woman in a man's body.

It's a bizarre but wonderful feeling, to arrive dead center of a target you didn't even know you were aiming for.

If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn't expecting it.

The glory of a good tale is that it is limitless and fluid; a good tale belongs to each reader in its own particular way.

We publish only to satisfy out craving for fame; there's no other motive except the even baser one of making money....

Writing is a lot like making soup. My subconscious cooks the idea, but I have to sit down at the computer to pour it out.

All I'm writing is just what I feel, that's all. I just keep it almost naked. And probably the words are so bland.

Comparisons deplete the actuality of the things compared... ("Conveyance: The Story I would Not Want Bill Wilson To Read")

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.

The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning.