I feel like I own all the kids in the world because, since I've never grown up myself, all my books are automatically for children.

You must never name the goal. You must never tell us the target you're hitting for. You must automatically go toward it without ever naming it.

Not to write, for many of us, is to die. We must take ares each and every day, perhaps knowing that the battle cannot be entirely won, but fight we must, if only a gentle bout. The smallest effort to win means, at the end of each day, a sort of victory.

Important thing is not the me that's lying here, but the me that's sitting on the edge of the bed looking back at me, and the me that's downstairs cooking supper, or out in the garage under the car, or in the library reading. All the new parts, they count. I'm not really dying today. No person ever died that had a family.

I'm being ironic. Don't interrupt a man in the midst of being ironic, it's not polite. There!

I don't have a computer. A computer's a typewriter. I already have a typewriter.

People try to force things. It's disastrous. Just leave your mind alone. Your intuition knows what it wants to write, so get out of the way.