Fiction is an improvement on life

the free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.

I'm not the cruel type, but they are, and that's the secret.

The writer has no responsibility other than to jack off in bed alone and write a good page.

A dry period for me means perhaps going two or three nights without writing. I probably have dry periods but I'm not aware of them and I go on writing, only the writing probably isn't much good.

If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form of existence will be yet another dull book in the library of life.

It was a joy! Words weren't dull, words were things that could make your mind hum. If you read them and let yourself feel the magic, you could live without pain, with hope, no matter what happened to you.