“Writing is a passion, to write you simply have to just let it flow and get on with it!”

“Writing is a failure. Writing is not only useless, it's spoiled paper.”

“If you could have a famous writer, dead or alive, write an obituary for you and really puff you up to have been something you weren’t, perhaps, or otherwise take liberties with your memory, what writer would you choose?”

“Writing is a combination of intangible creative fantasy and appallingly hard work.”

“Is a gesture of charity genuine or is it a kind of deep moral tax write-off?”

“Where, as again Vaughan writes, the liberated soul ascends, looking at the sunset towards the west wind, and hearing secret harmonies.”

“Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”