When you go home tonight, make a list of the people who are impediments, who don't believe in you, and call them up and tell them, 'Get the hell out of my life.' You don't need them. Writing is tough enough without having people around you who contribute to a writer's insecurity.

Reading is at the center of our lives. The library is our brain. Without the library, you have no civilization.

I think the only way we can grow and get on in this world is to accept the fact we're not perfect and live accordingly.

Monday burn Millay, Wednesday Whitman, Friday Faulkner, burn 'em to ashes, then burn the ashes. That's our official slogan.

Action is hope. There is no hope without action.

That's the wonderful thing about man; he never gets so discouraged or disgusted that he gives up doing it all over again, because he knows very well it is important and WORTH the doing.

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