…I have this one nasty habit. Makes me hard to live with. I write……writing is antisocial. It’s as solitary as masturbation. Disturb a writer when he is in the throes of creation and he is...

On the whole, I think you should write biographies of those you admire and respect, and novels about human beings who you think are sadly mistaken.

it’s been my experience that most writers don’t talk about their craft–they just do it

I have a great many opinions about writing, but I’m afraid that all of them are unprintable

I realized I was officially a professional writer when all my plans began with “drink coffee” and ended with “take a nap.

Poetic license is not a license to scribe recklessly.