There's a Mr. Hyde for every happy Jekyll face, a dark face on the other side of the mirror.
If the stuff you're writing is not for yourself, it won't work.
I have the world's best job. I get paid to hang out in my imagination all day.
Writing is seduction.
I understand from my own work that haste makes waste. But I also understand that ... the creative spark dims, and then death puts it out. William Shakespeare, for instance, hasn’t produced a new play for 400 years. That, my friends, is a long dry spell.
The universe (he said) offers a paradox too great for the finite mind to grasp. As the living brain cannot conceive of a nonliving brain — although it may think it can — the finite mind cannot grasp the infinite.