Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.

I think I would have written five times as much as I've written if I didn't have this terrible sense of perfection.

All human life has its seasons and cycles, and no one's personal chaos can be permanent. Winter, after all, gives way to spring and summer, though sometimes when branches stay dark and the earth cracks with ice, one thinks they will never come, that spring, and that summer, but they do, and always.

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 will say only that all a writer has to work with is the material he has gathered as the result of his own endeavor and observations, and he cannot be denied the right to use it. Condemn, but not deny.

Good writing is rewriting.

Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.