Most writers tend to get worse rather than better. I'm determined to be one that gets better.

It doesn't get better, it doesn't get worse, but it sure gets different!

It always seemed much better to be a writer - a Real Writer - than a successful hack.

The world does not get to be a better or a worse place; it just gets more senescent.

I always feel I'm better known in England than I am here in the U.S. Americans don't read that much, and the French are very good at knowing the names of everybody.

Some writers are so enthralled by ideas (one thinks of Doris Lessing) that their characters become debaters, and their fables approach allegory.