Being a writer of fiction isn't like being a compulsive liar, honestly.

Actually I didn't shoot a man in Reno just to watch him die, but he could tell I was extremely cross.

I'm sure there's an alternate universe where I got to become a pulpy science fiction writer.

I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect.

So," he asked. "How's death?" "Hard," she said. "It just keeps going.

She was witchy, yes, and in charge of a cauldron roiling with ideas and stories, but she always gave the impression that the stories, the ones she wrote and wrote so very well and so wisely, had simply happened, and that all she had done was to hold the pen. (On Diana Wynne Jones)

You have to finish things - that's what you learn from, you learn by finishing things.