There's nothing quite as funny as someone else's misery - Cassel Sharpe

The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are imaginary.

My mind skidded round a very short track and passed the finish line in a matter of seconds without any sensible conclusion.

Be who you were meant to be and not what you've allowed yourself to become," Kate said to Mavis as she wavered over following her dream. from 'Lifesong

I like what I do. Some writers have said in print that they hated writing and it was just a chore and a burden. I certainly don't feel that way about it. Sometimes it's difficult. You know, you always...

A plastic surgeon should never tell anybody to age gracefully. Rather his motto should be to make people age youthfully.

In writing the short novel Fahrenheit 451 I thought I was describing a world that might evolve in four or five decades. But only a few weeks ago, in Beverly Hills one night, a husband and wife passed...

(F)iction is...what ought to have been, not what actually was. At least, not exactly.

Although when there were too many people around- which there certainly were today- it was hard even to remember to say thank you: all those people were like drowning.

We'd become Japs, Jews, Niggers. We weren't before.

But you've slipped under my skin, invaded my blood and seized my heart

Different versions of a true story

(M)ysteries in fiction are seldom as insoluble as those in life, as most writers can't resist the lure of omniscience.

Writing fiction feels like an adventurous act, nudging aside reality a word at a time.

Everything bleeds into everything and fiction is just this funny desperate little attempt to staunch the bleeding.

The Gates of Heaven and the Gates of Hell are the same gates. It just depends which side you're standing on when you walk through.

Perhaps the critics are right: this generation may not produce literature equal to that of any past generation--who cares? The writer will be dead before anyone can judge him--but he must go on writin...

She was going to go home after this and sip red wine and stare at the wall, I could tell. She would wonder why she was doing this, struggling against commercial interests at a corporate hospital when...

I was its skin, its movement, its shape, its god, its creator, its destroyer. And you thought Dexter was bad. The Bridgeman arrives soon.

Writing fiction is a way of expressing feelings and revealing a certain truth about life, goals, dreams and desires.