I think that perhaps if I had had to slow down the ideas so that I could capture them on paper I might have stifled some of them.

Writing for me is a kind of compulsion, so I don't think anyone could have made me do it, or prevented me from doing it.

Anything is possible if you have enough nerve.

I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

If you want life-long friendship and selfless camaraderie, join the army and learn to kill.If you want a lifetime of temporary alliances with peers who will glory in your every failure, write novels.

The wonderful thing about writing is that there is always a blank page waiting. The terrifying thing about writing is that there is always a blank page waiting.