There are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. And other people who stand around and watch them eat.

I don't think many writers like their best-known piece of work, particularly when it was written a long time ago.

Writers talk too much.

How often the rich like to play at being poor. A rather nasty game, I've always thought.

One sits uncomfortably on a too comfortable cushion.

If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.

I'm good at embroidery. It's what I always wanted to do.... Yep, instead of whoring, I just wanted to do fancy embroidery.