Falling in love with a writer is a dangerous thing, isn't it? The only thing you get out of it sometimes is immortality.

Make no mistake, those who write long books have nothing to say.Of course those who write short books have even less to say.

Writers don’t get time off. Every moment - waking or sleeping - a writer is working, observing, thinking and creating.

Not everyone will like what you write but there's a certain group who'll love what you write. Keep WRITING for them.

Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.

This is a little secret that all writers share: We have two lives; the one we live on Earth and the one we live in our books.

In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book.

When I write...I am in the fond armsof a childhood friendupon whose colorful heart I can hang the charcoal drawingsof my woes.

The best way of writing sex scenes is to do the first draft, orgasm, and then start editing. You can be objective post-orgasm.

This story was a story of our time. And a writer's attempts not to fathom his time amount but to sounding his mind in it.

As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers, so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.

Writers often torture themselves trying to get the words right. Sometimes you must lower your expectations and just finish it.

People approach writers, assuming we pull a perfect text out of our nose each time (well spelled). Spelling is the least of it.

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilisation from destroying itself."(Interview, New York Post Magazine, September 14, 1958)

Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us?