I was not predicting the future, I was trying to prevent it.

At the top of your lungs, shout and listen to the echoes. You must live life at the top of your voice!

That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

A computer does not smell ... if a book is new, it smells great. If a book is old, it smells even better… And it stays with you forever. But the computer doesn’t do that for you. I’m sorry.

Zest. Gusto. How rarely one hears these words used. How rarely do we see people living, or for that matter, creating, by them. Yet if I were asked to name the most important items in a writer's make-up, the things that shape his material and rush him along the road he wants to go. I would only warn him to look to his zest, see to his gusto.

What is The Subconscious to every other man, in its creative aspect becomes, for writers, The Muse.

You let the story cool off and then, instead of rewriting it, you relive it.