Entertain, yes. That goes without saying. But a good writer does that automatically, it's built into the machine. Telling a thumpingly good, mesmerizing story is what one does without question. But beyond that, any writer worth his/her hire knows that all writing, one way or another, is subversive. It is guerrilla warfare against the status quo.

I am responsible for myself. I am exactly who I eventually wanted myself to be, I guess, without consciously knowing what I wanted me to be.

The ability to dream is all I have to give. That is my responsibility; that is my burden. And even I grow tired.

Get a day job, make your money from that, and write to please yourself.

Don't start an argument with somebody who has a microphone when you don't. They'll make you look like chopped liver.

I am not one of these people who instantly takes umbrage when he's corrected or - I love being corrected.

I'm nothing. Nothing at all without writing. Without truth, my truth, the only truth I know, it's all a gambol in the pasture without rhythm or sense.