"Do you suffer when you write? I don't at all. Suffer like a bastard when don't write, or just before, and feel empty and fucked out afterwards. But never feel as good as while writing."
"People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars."
"For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can."
"There is no friend as loyal as a book."
"Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another."
"Remember to get the weather in your damn book--weather is very important."