Writers of novels live in a strange world where what's made up is as important as what's real.
Why do you think you are always right?" Asks a dumb person that can't understand why I make a living as a self-help author or why she is wasting my time and I will never speak to her ever again.
Woman, especially her sexuality, provides the object of endless commentary , description, supposition. But the result of all the telling only deepens the enigma and makes woman's erotic force somethin...
Writing well means never having to say, "I guess you had to be there.
The best fame is a writer's fame. It's enough to get a table at a good restaurant, but not enough to get you interrupted when you eat.
The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one. He has a dream. It anguishes him so much he must get rid of it. He has no peace until then. Everythi...
How are you supposed to know what to read next? This is the question that keeps us up at night, so at Day One our mission is to feed an audience of literature-hungry, time-constrained readers like you...
This is the strange life of books that you enter along as a writer, mapping an unknown territory that arises as you travel. If you succeed in the voyage, others enter after, one at a time, also alone,...
Readers don’t work for writers. They work for themselves.
Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method.— Walter Benjamin, Unpacking My Library
An obsessed reader figured that ‘Armistead Maupin’ was an anagram for ‘is a man I dreamt up’.
Our society like decadent Rome has turned into an amusement society with writers chief among the court jesters - not so much above the clatter as part of it.
Publication is a self-invasion of privacy.
Proper words in proper places make the true definition of a style.
Write something even if it's just a suicide note.
I quote others in order to better express my own self.
Memoirs: the backstairs of history.
As a writer, self-doubt is useless. Get rid of it, rip it out like a weed and compost it.
My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.
My view on writers? We all have the same shovels, but never dig in the same places or to the exact same depth