Writing is a fine therapy for people who are perpetually scared of nameless threats . . . for jittery people.

The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis.

The writer's duty is to keep on writing

In America there seems to be an idea that writing is one big cat-and-dog fight between the various parishioners of the craft.

The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis.

Every writer since the beginning of time, just like other people, has been afflicted by what [a] friend of mine calls "the fleas of life"-you know, colds, hangovers, bills, sprained ankles and little nuisances of one sort or another.