When a solid first draft of an original tale is complete...you feel as if you could do anything.

The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature: only then can he see clearly.

Lolita is famous, not I. I am an obscure, doubly obscure, novelist with an unpronounceable name.

...if you always move in certainty, your writing will be flat - creativity is a rugged terrain...

Writers have a well-deserved reputation for being eccentric. Everything you've heard is true.

To my fellow writers' I say, 'Write. Build an imaginary world like nobody's watching.

A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.

If writers stopped writing about what happened to them, then there would be a lot of empty pages.

Deserted libraries hold the shades of writers who worked within, and are haunted by their absence.

If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuyt[bn[ pasdlgkhasdfasdf.

Your only responsibility as a writer is to be true to the story that has chosen you as its writer.

You ever try holding, say, even a single chapter of a novel in your head? Consciously? All at once?

People like me write because otherwise we are pretty inarticulate. Our articulation is our writing.

Everything you invent is true: you can be sure of that. Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.

One day, I shall explode like an artillery shell and all my bits will be found on the writing table.