“I have a writer’s concentration: intense, but flickering.”
“Television concentrates its blue flicker of death in the frontal lobe”
“I don't believe in being serious about anything. I think life is too serious to be taken seriously."[Writer’s Digest Interview (Robert Jacobs, Writer’s Digest, February 1976)]”
“I haven’t had trouble with writer’s block. I think it’s because my process involves writing very badly. My first drafts are filled with lurching, clichéd writing, outright flailing around. Writing that doesn’t have a good voice or any voice. But then there will be good moments. It seems writer’s block is often a dislike of writing badly and waiting for writing better to happen.”
“The wastepaper basket is the writer’s best friend. ”
“Writer’s block is only a failure of the ego.”