"When writing a novel, that's pretty much entirely what life turns into: 'House burned down. Car stolen. Cat exploded. Did 1500 easy words, so all in all it was a pretty good day."
"If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist."
"And life is a good thing for a writer. It's where we get our raw material, for a start. We quite like to stop and watch it."
"Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters."
"Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't."
"It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak."