If you want to write fiction, the best thing you can do is take two aspirins, lie down in a dark room, and wait for the feeling to pass.

The short story, I should point out, is perforce a labor of love in today's literary world; there's precious little economic incentive to write one...

I never know what I'm going to write next, and when I think I do I usually turn out to be mistaken.

I’ve tried writing and the sentences come out fine, but I write a few pages and I don’t want to go on.