At the typewriter you find out who you are.

If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.

When I sit down to write, I just let the goose out of the bottle.

Everybody has to find out: who are you? What do you believe in?

You don't find out who you are unless you work at it.

In fiction, when you paint yourself into a corner, you can write a pair of suction cups onto the bottoms of your shoes and walk up the wall and out the skylight and see the sun breaking through the clouds. In nonfiction, you don't have that luxury.