It's hard to say which of us is luckier, the ones who go through long periods when they can't write or the ones who can write pretty easily.

I don't really like to tell people to get out drugs.

I think the difference between writing as someone and writing for them is that when you write for someone, you take on a kind of political burden or message, which I don't think we have the right to do.

I think a day in your life on which nothing bad happens may be a wonderful day, but it probably isn't going to be the basis of a story.

I just like doing it, I like writing.

Writers sometimes are paid a great deal of money, but much more frequently they're not paid or are paid only a little bit.

We have to diversify, we have to find work we can do that helps other people while helping ourselves, work that has to do with writing that isn't necessarily just writing saleable novels or getting huge advances.