It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.

When I finished [writing it], I was crying. I knew at long last, after ten years of trying, I had written something good.

All of us, no matter how we look born into this world, feel something like the Hunchback. It doesn't matter if you have a beautiful face or not.

You've got to be able to look at your thoughts on paper and discover what a fool you were.

Write 1000 words a day. That's only about four pages, but force yourself to do it. Put your finger down your throat and throw up. That's what writing's all about.

I've been writing every day of my life for 65 years.

You learn to live with your crazy enthusiasms which nobody else shares, and then you find a few other nuts like yourself, and they're your friends for a lifetime. That's what friends are, the people who share your crazy outlook and protect you from the world, because nobody else is going to give a damn what you're doing, so you need a few other people like yourself.