To write is human, to edit is divine.

Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up.

Anyone who thinks impressions of old movie actors is funny absolutely cannot be trusted. I think it's like a law of nature.

As far as where I go when I die, the concept that I am simple going to flick out, like a light bulb, to me is not only spiritually impossible to believe, but logically it is laughable - the idea that we simply die and nothing happens.

Writing is not life, but I think that sometimes it can be a way back to life.

...my basic belief about the making of stories is that they pretty much make themselves.

By the time I was fourteen the nail in my wall would no longer support the weight of the rejection slips impaled upon it. I replaced the nail with a spike and went on writing.