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.

It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something

I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch.

That isn't writing at all, it's typing.

Norman Mailer thinks William Burroughs is a genius, which I think is ludicrous beyond words. I don't think William Burroughs has an ounce of talent.

Intelligence alone can't make a good writer and style alone can't make a good writer - that is, not a really important or significant writer - but the two things together make a really good writer.

But we are alone, darling child, terribly, isolated each from the other; so fierce is the world's ridicule we cannot speak or show our tenderness; for us, death is stronger than life, it pulls like a wind through the dark, all our cries burlesqued in joyless laughter; and with the garbage of loneliness stuffed down us until our guts burst bleeding green, we go screaming round the world, dying in our rented rooms, nightmare hotels, eternal homes of the transient heart.