. . . crazy world or maybe it's just the view we have of it, looking through a crack in the door, never being able to see the whole room, the whole picture.

The 'creator' and the 'editor' - two halves of the writer whole - should sleep in separate rooms.

Riding the train gives him too much time to think, he has decided. Too much thinking can ruin you.

Writers don't write to inform other people, they write to find out something themselves.

Sometimes you are being interviewed by someone and you think, if I knew this person they'd be my best friend. Other times you're being interviewed by a complete jerk.

Make notes—I’ve lost more material than I’ve ever written. Contrary to popular opinion, it’s not still up there in one’s brain. It’s in outer space and it ain’t coming back.

I can write for a long time on one novel and not get tired.