Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.

I thought it was a wonderfully conceptual act actually, to fire a replica pistol at a figurehead - the guy could have been working for Andy Warhol!

Yes, sometimes I think that all my writing is nothing more than the compensatory work of a frustrated painter.

I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.

I have learned that any fool can write a bad ad, but that it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.

Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.