Work is the only device I know of.

Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town.

I think the only person a writer has an obligation to is himself. If what I write doesn't fulfill something in me, if I don't honestly feel it's the best I can do, then I'm miserable.

If you sweep a house, and tend its fires and fill its stove, and there is love in you all the years you are doing this, then you and that house are married, that house is yours.

Personally, I rather think that if you're not creative you've got a problem on your hands. If you are creative you've got a double problem.

I'm not a character in any of my books.

But it's Sunday, Mr. Bell. Clocks are slow on Sundays.