If you want to write fiction, the best thing you can do is take two aspirins, lie down in a dark room, and wait for the feeling to pass.

I haven't got anything against cats. I haven't got anything against elk either, but that doesn't mean I'm going to keep one in the store so I'll have a place to hang my hat.

I never know what I'm going to write next, and when I think I do I usually turn out to be mistaken.

The short story, I should point out, is perforce a labor of love in today's literary world; there's precious little economic incentive to write one.

Everybody's weird, fundamentally everybody is a snap. Sometimes it's a sexual thing and sometimes it's a different kind of weirdness, but one way or another everybody's nuts.

It's the easiest thing in the world to know God's will. You just wait and see what happens, and that's it.

As a friend of mine, herself a writer, says, 'People who spend the most meaningful hours of their lives in the exclusive company of imaginary people are apt to be a little strange'