O foolish writer. Now moves. Even in storytime, dreamtime, once-upon-a-time, now isn't then.

Artists are people who are not at all interested in the facts - only in the truth.

No man, no power, can bind the action of wizardry or still the words of power. For they are the very words of Making, and one who could silence them could unmake the world.

George, it's impossible to correct a defective reality-orientation overnight.

Writers are egotists. All artists are. They can’t be altruists and get their work done. And writers love to whine about the Solitude of the Author’s Life, and lock themselves into cork-lined rooms or droop around in bars in order to whine better. But although most writing is done in solitude, I believe that it is done, like all the arts, for an audience. That is to say, with an audience. All the arts are performance arts, only some of them are sneakier about it than others.

Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.

Any artist must expect to work amid the total, rational indifference of everybody else to their work, for years, perhaps for life.