“This is what I believe to be the progress of a writer. You write 10 things, of which one of them will be great. You then write 11 things, of which two of them will be great. Then you write 12 things, of which four of them will be great. Then you write 13 things, of which eight of them will be great. Finally you write 14 things, of which 16 of those 14 things will be great. 
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“I want to drown in all the ink used to write positive things about my clone and how great he is.”

“It doesn't take long to write things of which you know nothing. When you write of actual things, it takes longer, because you have to live them first.”

“There is no such thing as great writing - there is only great re-writing!”

“I don’t like writers whose writing is so obvious that I can predict what he’ll write while I’m still taking in his current thoughts. Why, this means that I know what he knows, and the point of reading is to discover things and thoughts which I don’t already know or that haven’t occurred to me. The greatest amusement is surprise. Fellatio! (Bet you didn’t see that coming!)”

“If you make guns illegal, the only people who will have them will be criminals—and the government, which of course is the same thing.”

“Which is more valuable into showing how I think: the order I think of things, or the order in which I arrange them once I’ve thought of them?”