"When asked, "How do you write?"I invariably answer, "One word at a time,"and the answer is invariably dismissed. But that is all it is. It sounds too simple to be true, but consider the Great Wall of China, if you will: one stone at a time, man. That's all. One stone at a time. But I've read you can see that motherfucker from space without a telescope."
"Outlines are the last resource of bad fiction writers who wish to God they were writing masters' theses."
"Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule."
"And people who don’t dream, who don’t have any kind of imaginative life, they must… they must go nuts. I can’t imagine that."
"Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding."
"Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life."