1. “The brain may take advice, but not heart.”
2. “Life is moderately good play with a badly written third act.”
3. “Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.”
4. “Failure is the condiment that give success its flavor.”
5. “You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.”
6. “More tears are shed over answered payers than unanswered ones.”
7. “To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the music the worlds make.”
8. “I despise people who can’t control themselves.”
9. “There are certain shades of limelight that can wreck a girl’s complexion.”
10. “Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.”
11. “Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.”
12. “A man who doesn’t dream is like a man who doesn’t sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.”
13. “You don’t run out of people; you run out of yourself.”
14. “The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.”
15. “I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.”
16. “A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.”
17. “Fame is only good for one thing – they will cash your check in a small town.”
18. “Most people don’t find their creativity. There are more unsung geniuses that don’t even know they have great talent.”
19. “Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.”
20. “You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.”
21. “Good writing is rewriting.”
22. “I’m not a character in any of my books.”
23. “All literature is gossip.”
24. “Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.”
25. “We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and never understand why.”
