Against the disease of writing one must take special precautions since it is a dangerous and contagious disease

Toby: All right. It couldn't have gone far, right?Sam: No.Toby: Somewhere in this building...is our talent.

There is something about just setting the pen to paper that lifts me and helps to focus my energy and thoughts.

I believe one would write better if the climate were bad. If there were a lot of wind and storms for example...

A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.

What I adore is supreme professionalism. I’m bored by writers who can write only when it’s raining.

Writers are like supreme beings. We can create worlds in a matter of days and we can destroy them just as fast.

‎"It almost felt like the dolphin of my heart’s desire playing in the ocean of my life." - on writing

The ability to dream is all I have to give. That is my responsibility; that is my burden. And even I grow tired.

I'm the first to admit that I don't write right. Now, relax and enjoy the show! The sideshow, that is.

Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.

I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man.

Writing is not a profession, occupation or job; it is not a way of life: it is a comprehensive response to life.

One changes, as a writer, fairly quickly; what you wrote six months or a year ago might not sound right anymore.

I don't think all writers are sad, she said.I think it's the other way around—all sad people write.