Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life.

The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication.

No man can rob successfully over a period of years without pleasing the people he robs.

You must write to the people's expertise.

Ninety percent of everything is crap.

There is in certain living souls a quality of loneliness unspeakable, so great it must be shared as company is shared by lesser beings. Such a loneliness is mine; so know by this that in immensity there is one lonelier than you.

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