Sometimes you have intuitive insight about how you think things are going to be, and you write that. Other times you fantasize completely, which has nothing to do with predicting the future.

Just write every day of your life. Read intensely.

I can write faster on a typewriter than you can on a computer. I do 120 words a minute, and you can't do that on a computer.

You either have an imaginative mind or you don't. All of my writing is God-given. I don't write my stories - they write themselves.

Beer's intellectual. What a shame so many idiots drink it.

We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.

Your mind's always juggling, isn't it?-mirrors, torches, plates.