Since great writers communicate a vision of existence, one can't borrow their methods. The method is married to the vision.

Writer’s block is only a failure of the ego.

We're all divided souls, we've got two natures in us, You measure schizophrenia not by the fact that you're divided but how well the divisions speak to one another.

To know what you want to say is not the best condition for writing a novel. Novels go happiest when you discover something you did not know you knew: an insight into one of your opaque characters, a metaphor that startles you... a truth... that used to elude you.

With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.

A really good style comes only when a man has become as good as he can be. Style is character. A good style cannot come from a bad undisciplined character.

In every death is a celebration; in every ecstasy, one little death.