We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.

I listen to the voices.

I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o'clock every day.

The writer doesn't need economic freedom. All he needs is a pencil and some paper.

An artist is completely amoral in that he will rob, beg, borrow, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.

In writing, you must kill all your darlings.

I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't, and then tries the short story, which is the most demanding form after poetry. And, failing at that, only then does he take up novel writing.