A pen connects you to the paper. It definitely matters.

Everyone has his own sound. I'm not going to presume how to tell anybody how to write.

I have fun writing. I don't make it a chore. I don't have to struggle with it.

I do have fun writing, and a long time ago, I told myself, 'You got to have fun at this, or it'll drive you nuts.'

Using adverbs is a mortal sin.

I used to be able to write five pages a day, every day, no problem. Now a good day is five or four pages, and that's from 9:30 A.M. until 6 P.M.

What do you tell a man with two black eyes? Nothing, he's already been told twice.