Everything I have ever written has been in the same chair, in the same room.

Ive learned never to try and force words to come.

I loathe crowds. I especially dont like cities. A city involves biomass. And biomass gets to me.

I love research so much that I do an enormous amount; it helps put off the moment of starting to write the story.

Possessive parents rarely live long enough to see the fruits of their selfishness.

... I had never given much credence to the phenomenon of "writer's block". I was more inclined to think of it as "writer's impatience", and to follow Arthur Koestler's dictum: "Soak; and wait.

When a monkey nibbles on a weenis, it's funny in any language.