“young or old, good or bad, I don't think anything dies as slow and as hard as a writer.”

“Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work.”

“Never give up, never slow down, never grow old and never ever die young.”

“It was dark and raining, with bad visibility, but this was Jersey, and we don't slow down for anything.”

“I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them. ”

“I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer that is as I say demon-driven and wants to learn and has got to write, he don't know why, he will learn from almost any source that he finds. He will learn from older people who are not writers, he will learn from writers, but he learns it -- you can't teach it.”