The faster you blurt, the more swiftly you write, the more honest you are.

Love what you do and do what you love. Don't listen to anyone else who tells you not to do it. You do what you want, what you love. Imagination should be the center of your life.

Important thing is not the me that's lying here, but the me that's sitting on the edge of the bed looking back at me, and the me that's downstairs cooking supper, or out in the garage under the car, or in the library reading. All the new parts, they count. I'm not really dying today. No person ever died that had a family.

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

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

I'll be damned if death wears my sadness for glad rags.

They whispered to Caesar that he was mortal, then sold daggers at half-price in the grand March sale.