The most improbable tales can be made believable, if your reader, through his sense, feels certain that he stands at the middle of events.

Don't write for money. Write because you love to do something. If you write for money, you won't write anything worth reading.

I take this continent with me into the grave.

If you write a hundred short stories and they're all bad, that doesn't mean you've failed. You fail only if you stop writing.

There are too many of us, he thought. There are billions of us and that's too many. Nobody knows anyone. Strangers come and violate you. Strangers come and cut your heart out. Strangers come and take your blood. Good God, who were those men? I never saw them before in my life!

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

Do what you love and love what you do. Don’t do anything for money. Everything should be for love.