There is such an animal as a nonstylist, only they're not writers - they're typists.

Technically I feel total fluidity in writing. I feel there's nothing technically that I can't do the way a certain sort of pianist feels that. But that doesn't mean it comes easily. It doesn't.

When I am writing, I try to do it five hours a day but I spend about two of those just fooling around.

It's worth your life to order an omelette in most restaurants. You never know what you're going to get.

Oh, I adore to cook. It makes me feel so mindless in a worthwhile way.

I'll never get used to anything. Anybody that does they might as well be dead.

No one will ever know what 'In Cold Blood' took out of me. It scraped me right down to the marrow of my bones. It nearly killed me. I think, in a way, it did kill me.