“I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning. ”

“I write when I'm inspired and I see to it that I'm inspired at 9 o'clock every morning. Peter de Vries”

“Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have to have both elements in creation — the Apollonian and the Dionysian, or spontaneity and restraint, emotion and discipline.”

“Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.”

“We are not primarily put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through. ”

“I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.”

“There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you.”