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.

Don’t let people interfere with you. Boot ’em out, turn off the phone, hide away, get it done. If you carry a short story over to the next day you may overnight intellectualize something about it and try to make it too fancy, try to please someone.

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.

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

Those who don't build must burn.

The faster you blurt, the more swiftly you write, the more honest you are.

I don't think about what I do. I do it. That's Buddhism. I jump off the cliff and build my wings on the way down.