I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch.
Never demean yourself by talking back to a critic, never. Write those letters to the editor in your head, but don't put them on paper.
Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.
When I'm writing, I never write more than four hours a day.
I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.
He’d always been willing to confess his faults, for, by admitting them, it was as if he made them no longer exist.