“Why vampires? You write centuries-long family sagas—why not write historical epics without any hint of the supernatural?" "Well, that would be boring, wouldn't it?" "Yeah, God only knows what Tolstoy was thinking.”
“Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well. Well, he would not have to fail at trying to write them either. Maybe you could never write them, and that was why you put them off and delayed the starting. Well he would never know, now.”
“I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failures at something else.”
“Oh, you know what bloggers are like, they write and write and write. I don't know why, because they're not being paid.”
“I wouldn't write a book to tell you that a vampire was happy.”
“Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write.”