It's rare you get an idea from a dream. I can't really recall a story that ever worked out that way. I think in 35 years of writing, that I've ever had a dream that held up. They're much too dislocated

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

Why live? Life was its own answer. Life was the propagation of more life and the living of as good a life as possible.

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

The river was mild and leisurely, going away from the people who ate shadows for breakfast and steam for lunch and vapors for supper.

He says I'm a regular onion! I keep him busy peeling away the layers.

Reality and Fiction are different in that fiction has to make sense.