Don't wait until you're 'in the mood.' Get into the mood by writing.

Under the old system - which is now so archaic that a lot of people can't remember it - if you wanted money you had to go to the bank and take the money out in cash form, and you couldn't take out money that you didn't have. But with the credit card you can spend money you don't have, and that is just so tempting.

You can’t buy it, but it has a price,” said Oryx. “Everything has a price.

Even in the tragedies, [William] Shakespeare always put in parts for the comic actors because his audience was mixed. He puts in people who talk like aristocrats. He puts in idiots and fools.

Writing is alone, but I don't think it's lonely. Ask any writer if they feel lonely when they're writing their book, and I think they'll say no.

In the evenings there's been thunder, a distant bumping and stumbling, like God on a sullen binge.

What is the real breath of a man — the breathing out or the breathing in?