“What's this "rough life of a novelist" bullshit? You sound like an idiot.You're a writer. At least give yourself better lines.”
“We lie. That's what we do. You're selling me a line of bullshit and you want me to sell you a line of bullshit back so you can write a major line of bullshit and be paid for it.”
“The trouble with giving yourself a pep talk is, that deep down you know it's all bullshit.”
“Give yourself to reading.’... You need to read. Renounce as much as you will all light literature, but study as much as possible sound theological works,especially the Puritanic writers, and expositions of the Bible.”
“The great novelists are philosophical novelists--that is, the contrary of thesis-writers.”
“Posthumous: It sounds like the name of a Roman gladiator, an unconquered gladiator. At least that’s what poor Posthumous would like to believe. It gives him courage.”