It's amazing that a man who is dead can talk to people through these pages. As long as this books survives, his ideas live.

The advantage of writing from experience is that it often provides you with details that you would never think of yourself, no matter how rich your imagination. And specificity in description is something every writer should strive for.

I'd love to write some porn, but I don't know if I have the right engines. When I was a young man and I was tempted to write porn, imaginary parents would appear over my shoulder and read what I was writing; just about the point that I managed to banish the imaginary parents, real children would lean over my shoulder and read what I was writing.

A good book isn't written, it's rewritten.

I have always wanted to write a book that ended with the word 'mayonnaise.

Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.