If you want to prove that God is not dead, first prove that man is alive.

Ideas are born from what is smelled, heard, seen, experienced, felt, emotionalized.

There are millions of ways to not be writing. You say you're not in the mood, you'll pick it up tomorrow.

I don't believe in reincarnation. That's a cop-out. . . . I anticipate death will be a totally unconscious void in which you float through eternity with no particular consciousness of anything.

The most important thing about the first sale is for the very first time in your life something written has value and proven value because somebody has given you money for the words that you've written, and that's terribly important, it's a tremendous boon to the ego, to your sense of self-reliance, to your feeling about your own talent.

I find dictating in the mass media particularly good because you're writing for voice anyway; you're writing for people to say a line and, consequently, saying a line through a machine is quite a valid test for the validity of what you're saying.

I don't feel, God dictated that I should write.