You've got to be smart enough to write and stupid enough not to think about all the things that might go wrong.

You are an author, a public figure. You are going to be judged no matter what you write, so live your life in a way that’s pleasing and congruent to your soul

The pen was his voice and the page his tears, when he was done; they called it a classic

It is no worse, because I write of it. It would be no better, if I stopped my most unwilling hand. Nothing can undo it; nothing can make it otherwise than as it was.

And I write novels!" chimed in the other cop. "Though I haven't had any of them published yet, so I better warn you, I'm in a meeeean mood!

Slartibartfast's study was a total mess, like the results of an explosion in a public library.