“If pens doubled as bullets, I bet few writers would want to write about war.”
“- I don't want to be a writer so I can write about my life. I want to be a writer to escape from it. + Then you shouldn't be a writer.”
“I really want to be a writer but I don't know what to write about""You could write about us”
“If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.”
“That 'writers write' is meant to be self-evident. People like to say it. I find it is hardly ever true. Writers drink. Writers rant. Writers phone. Writers sleep. I have met very few writers who write at all.”
“I wanted to hide away and write. I wanted to meet characters who would climb up my pen. I wanted to create a completely new world, inventing everyone and everything.”