I became paralyzed as an artist with writer's block.

If your wife locks you out of the house, you don't have a problem with your door.

There's no such thing as writer's block. That was invented by people in California who couldn't write.

I haven’t had writer’s block. I think it’s because my process involves writing very badly.

Very often we write down a sentence too early, then another too late; what we have to do is write it down at the proper time, otherwise it's lost.

Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban firefighter and having lots of free time in which to write or becoming an English teacher and thinking about books and writers on a daily basis. That swayed me.