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.

Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction.

In your reading, find books to improve your color sense, your sense of shape and size in the world.

You have to be very productive in order to become excellent. You have to go through a poor period and a mediocre period, and then you move into your excellent period. It may be very well be that some of you have done quite a bit of writing already. You maybe ready to move into your good period and your excellent period. But you shouldn't be surprised if it becomes a very long process.

The Internet is a big distraction. It's distracting, it's meaningless; it's not real. It's in the air somewhere.

Facts are not interesting to me.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.